[grumble] I guess this is my check in for February

Feb. 20th, 2009 08:30 pm
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As some of you know most of my UPSes[1] have been flaking out for the last several months. The one that serves as UPS and powerstrip. for the machine I do most of my internet stuff on, has completely flipped out today. It won't even let me power anything on and doesn't look like it's going to recover as it's been about 8 hours already. That means I don't have access to that machine until I can get either a new battery or an entirely new UPS. Until then I probably won't be able to read LJ, access Facebook (no great loss there), or be available on IM.

I will still be reachable through my gmail account.

[sigh] This is shaping up to be such a wonderful year.

1. What is the plural for UPS anyway?

Edit: Looks like it decided to work. The question is for how long?
Edit 2: Not for very long apparently.
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Checking in for January 2009.

Jan. 28th, 2009 01:57 pm
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I haven't written much here in awhile so I thought I'd let the folks who read this know that yes, I'm still alive and cooking. I had a good bout of writing the last week of December and first week of January. I'm still going through what I wrote to see if any of it salable or at least worth posting on my website. To put it into perspective it's about a hundred thousand words of freewriting prattle.I estimate there's about 40,000 words worth of workable material in the mass.

In other news the three projects, which I shall not name here, that I've been working on for the last year or so and more than a decade in the case of one, are coming along. I'm hoping this year that collaborative project I've been working on, off and on for so many years, with [livejournal.com profile] auld_hippie will reach a publishable form by year's end.

( My New Year's resolution. )

Worryingly Monday evening I noticed my left arm appears to be all scratched up. A dozen red lines up and down the arm. Looks like something took a few good claw swipes at me. For the ife of me I can't figure out how they got there. As I write this all but the worst of them seem to be fading nicely. I'm thinking it might just be the dry air making my skin crack though I've never before seen such dramatic marks over such a large area before caused by that.

I hope everyone is having a good year so far.
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More New Year's Musings

Jan. 1st, 2007 06:08 pm
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It feels strange noting this but I've kept the same email address and webspace since 13 January 1998. Before that I'd used The INDEX System as my main internet email provider.
( further thoughts on long standing contact data )

Now I find myself pondering dropping my Mindspring/Earthlink account and moving my webpages to another provider. I've had BellSouth DSL for a year now. Earthlink couldn't provide me with DSL out here, so after the move I switched to dial-up and kept looking for broadband options and eventually ended up going to BellSouth FastAccess. I've kept my Mindspring account for the reasons I mentioned behind the cut above.

Anyrate, I'm pondering moving to a web hosting provider. [livejournal.com profile] frostedelves has suggested one that looks very promising, indeed. Do any of you have any web hosting sites that you've been really impressed with?
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