Well, my DSL has been flaky the last week (and probably will be in the future), because I live on the very edge of the service area at the end of a little hill which can only be reached by driving a narrow, winding dirt road reminiscent of Haiti or some other third world country.
So my blog will be available indiscriminately for the time being. I’m working on an X-10 macro that will reboot my DSL modem to reestablish the connection multiple time per day, but that’s a journey in and of itself.
The company that provides my DSL service is Citizens Communications, which calls itself Frontier. The local employees are wonderful but typical of any big company, the tech support blows. They don’t care about you and you end up not caring about them either. It’s really special how that works.
Citizens Communications is, ironically, really bad at communication. They do a lot of really irritating things to customers, like blocking Port 25 so you can only use their provided e-mail account. Of course, I’ve found a way around that. I’m having a harder time managing the flaky DSL. Gives me something to waste time on.