Phone Cards
Len at Philosophical Scrivener says that due to an outpouring of support the wounded have plenty of phone cards to use at Walter Reed, but if you want to extend some NODWISH goodness to “the troops” he has a link to a Stars & Stripes page of groups that are helping in other ways.
December 19, 2004 Comments Off on Phone Cards
Social Security
Michael has a great Toles’ cartoon up on the Acme, Inc.1 attempt to loot the Social Security Trust Fund.
1. See Rook to understand.
December 19, 2004 Comments Off on Social Security
ISP
Beginning tomorrow I am migrating to a different Internet Service Provider. I’ve been through two buy-outs of this company over the decade and three of their moves, but a recent accounting foul up has pushed me to finally upgrade to DSL from the dial-up I’ve been using.
I have clients who have wanted me to do some things over the Internet that I have been able to avoid because of the dial-up connection, and now I must acquiesce.
There may be temporary broken links as I move graphics and such to a new homepage, and posting may be light next week, which shouldn’t affect those who celebrate Christmas, as you should be too busy to be reading blogs.
While I have planned the migration and given myself two weeks to complete an operation that shouldn’t take more than an hour, I will be dealing with Sprint and Earthlink, so I expect the worse. They have already rescheduled the installation once and it is now scheduled for the coldest Monday we are apt to see this year.
Given a temperature of 30°, a Monday, and Christmas week, I have scant optimism that my local telco will even be up to their usual marginally acceptable level of service.
December 19, 2004 Comments Off on ISP
