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Testing a YouTube video

Presidents Race at Nationals Park
Testing YouTube’s post-to-weblog feature with a video shot at Friday’s Nationals game.
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The shame of internet silence

What happened to “update coming in October” there, big guy?

So much to say, so much to say, so much to say, so much to say

Have I already used “Back from the set and covering all bets” as an excerpt? I can’t remember.

No Comcast news yet

… but at least it hasn’t been as bad lately. There’s hope(ish)!
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the Comcast, the

One of the reasons I’ve been somewhat scarce of late is the abysmal state of our home network. Since I last expounded on the topic things have gotten steadily worse, to the point where we’ve pretty much decided to throw in the towel on Comcast and switch to Verizon’s hopefully-less-crappy FIOS service. I’m sure the [...]

The anti-”I didn’t get the job” rant

You know, sometimes it’s okay not to get promoted.

Ow.

The short version is, I slipped while going down the stairs this morning and wound up sliding/falling down the bottom third or so. It was painful.
Fortunately I don’t seem to have bent anything, but I decided to take the day off from work to recover a bit (my whole lower body is stiff and sore). [...]

Wither Comcast?

This may be the end of the road for our cable provider.

Migrating to Dreamhost, for a bit

While I make an attempt to sort out some minor quirks with the old ball and chain (the server, not my wife!), I’ve set up shop for a bit at Dreamhost, as recommended by various associates. I’ve managed to import my MySQL database, WordPress install, and mail accounts, although mail is still a bit messed [...]