General Blather

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a confirmed (well, he did plead guilty) mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks wants to be put to death, according to the NY Times. I'm not shying away from capital punishment at all, especially when evidence and confessions are… more »

Another update of the blog software has been released, and is now installed here. more »

It seems that after six months the residential service people will come out and physically disconnect the cable. more »

I happened to be trying to diagnose a problem with the IMAP server (failing to accept logins from the web-mail application), when my connection dropped and failed to return. Drops happen, thus screen, but usually they are related to drops on the client… more »

I recently updated my router's firmware from the manufacturer. It was the first update in a few years, and although it was a few months old (I don't often check for router firmware updates), it did proclaim some performance improvements. It was wrong. more »

After repairing the power supply the other day, all seemed to be going well. more »