World Crossing is apparently closing its doors, or rather having its doors closed on it. Another piece of my past vanishing. Not that I'm particularly upset about it. I pretty much stopped hanging out over there at all once b.org finally found a stable hosting solution. But it is sad. The folks still over there are scurrying around looking for ( Read more... )

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So, b.org is down, and when I tried to log into b.info, I discover that my usual username and password don't work on Blogger. I vaguely recall that I was unable to get "DXMachina" as a username over there (curse those Machinas come lately), so I ask them to tell me what my user name is. They will, as long as I tell them the e-mail address I ( Read more... )

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Spent Saturday trying to be social after a long layoff. There was a bon voyage party at pix_kristin's house for billytea, who's on a farewell tour of this country before returning to his native Oz. theodosia drove down a little early, and we saw The Incredibles before heading down to Connecticut. The party was fun. There were Muppet Show episodes and Singing in the ( Read more... )

Sometimes, good news comes from unexpected places. Today, it was from Chester, VT.

(A couple of hours later...)
And now, since it's been officially announced, it can be told.

Congratulations to TomW and noradeirdre!!!

Back home from Maine, and I had great fun there with la_perkins and Tom S. Sunday morning I picked Tom up in Cambridge, and we made it to Deer Isle with little trouble, with the exception of getting stuck for awhile behind a guy on Rt. 3 doing 25 mph while sporting a bumper sticker that said "Maine on the Move." Tom noted that it must have been meant to be ( Read more... )

Heh, got an e-mail from TT asking me to come back there and pay them for what I can get for free from WX. No thanks. Everyone I want to interact with is on WX. It's not about the money - I've already kicked in some cash towards the Phoenix Board. It's just that it still looks like Salon and TT are on the verge of going under, and that this is a ( Read more... )

Speedy is up and running. Installed ULead Video Studio SE, applied all the patches, updated Direct X, and attached the camcorder. Sonuvagun, it actually worked. Well, sort of ( Read more... )

Hot, muggy night. Didn't go for a ride because of threatened thunderstorms, but it turns out I could have. They've only just now gotten here ( Read more... )