EDIT: By the time I finished posting that, it was back up, oddly enough. We’ll see how long that lasts, though.

Hi. My home net (and therefore all mail to @aq.org addresses) is down. I lost net yesterday afternoon for a while; my ISP determined that it was Covad’s problem (their ISP) and reprovisioned the line, which fixed things until this ( Read more... )

Due to a hardware failure, lists.aq.org and polyboston.org have been down since sometime this weekend. If you have a list on the machine, that’s why you can’t get to the web interface to administer it. If you’re subscribed to a list on it, that’s why things have been eerily quiet the last few days. Sigh ( Read more... )

(1) I forgot to mention in my post about the weekend that Saturday morning plumtreeblossom and I got together with my old college friend beeiger her son projectmothra, and her girlfriend lediva for early brunch at Johnny D’s, and we had a delightful time.

(2) I’ve switched my phone service over to a new carrier, and I can send and receive voice calls and send text messages, but so far I ( Read more... )

On Friday I met plumtreeblossom after work (see her weekend write-up here) and we took the train to Quincy Center together. We had dinner at Outback Steakhouse. I don’t like their corporate politics, but I love their food and sometimes I just need a hunk of cow. As it turned out, I’m very glad we did, because I ordered an Australian beer I wasn’t familiar with ( Read more... )

Howdy. Just wanted to mention two Firefox plugins I’ve started using lately and find extremely useful:

It's All Text! lets you edit text-entry areas (like LiveJournal post and comment fields) with your favourite real text editor. (So you can search-and-replace, load prepared files, and use whatever convenience features like abbreviations or ( Read more... )

We just had a transformer blow in my neighbourhood, so aq.org (and my email) are down at the moment. My phone is on and has a reasonable charge. EDIT: It was back up a couple hours later.

So I got my replacement phone the other day. Brand new phone, same kind as my previous phone ( Read more... )

So my phone (a Nokia E62) has been flaky for several months. ( explanation )

Howdy. I will be upgrading aq.org and moving it to new hardware Sunday afternoon and evening. This means that delivery to email addresses hosted there (including mine) and web sites hosted there will be down for that period.

This does NOT affect polyboston.org or mailing lists on lists.aq.org, since those are on a separate machine.

I’m too tired to do justice to the lovely time I’ve been having the past few days, but here’s the capsule version:

On Wednesday, the 26th, drove to Rochester. (Lots of happy fun stuff happened before my trip, too, but I’m hopelessly behind so I’m just going to start fresh.) Gorgeous driving weather. Arrived in time for dinner at plumtreeblossom’s mother’s ( Read more... )