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Saturday, July 13, 2002
Back to dial-up
Not to be outdone by Iomega and Earthlink in providing customer dissatisfaction, Verizon recently solved the problem of overbilling me for DSL by shutting it off. To further enhance my Verizon experience, they will not be able to re-provision me until July 18th. This because their provisioning database (I think it's dBase III or possibly a gigantic Lotus spreadsheet) doesn't allow reprovisioning of a deleted account until said account is purged from the system. Which only happens Thursdays. If I check the calendar, by the time my service is back up I will have seen 4 Thursdays without DSL. But the last customer service rep I spoke gently chastised me, telling me that my every call to Verizon caused helpless customer service reps to screw up my account further by deleting and re-entering new orders in the provisioning database (spreadsheet?).
When you think about it, the whole thing is my own fault for a) complaining that Verizon was charging me $99.90/month for $49.95/month service, and b) repeatedly requesting that the service be restored. The good news is that in the meantime I'm using Free Connect, although the max speed of 44,000bps is a little slow for your average media-rich surfing experience. But I'm not complaining; I'm not paying for it and it always works.
You Haven't Been Imaging It - the Webcam Has Been Down More Often Than Not
Spent part of Saturday trying to get Webcam32 to work correctly. Most recent strategem: removing entries from the registry. I was going to do that one at a time, but I quickly became bored with that and removed them all at once. How quickly? One reboot was enough for me! Phooey and reboot and install! Testing continues.
Streams lead to civilization eventually.
Friday, July 12, 2002
"Interesting."
"Yeah, too interesting."
Today's headlines seem especially, well, newsworthy:
Before Shackleton, There Was Scott of the Antarctic
"I do not regret the journey; we took risks, we know we took them, things have come out against us, therefore we have no cause for complaint."
- Scott of the Antarctic. "Listen, I gotta fight the lion. That's what that guy Scott's all about. I know. I've studied him already." - Kirk Vilb 
Thursday, July 11, 2002
Because Myrmidons Is the Nicest People!
"Luckily, I found the city of the ant people before the sun set. I'm sure they'll give a hungry grasshopper a place to stay."
Wednesday, July 10, 2002
Foggy. Cliffy. Streamy.
Tuesday, July 09, 2002
To the boats! To the boats!
"Let's see what's inland, he says. Too much time on the shore, he says! I should be struck by lightning before I breathe in the chlorine, thank you very much!"
A good day
Coffee from a cheerful barista, steam from cement factory nicely lit by the dawn, no SUVs on my commute (w00t!) and a good review from my boss.
Monday, July 08, 2002
My Minority Report Report
Liked it. I was afraid that it would fail the "Is it Phildickian
enough?" test, but it passed admirably. Terry Gilliam may have something to say about the ending though.
Strangely, the Wee Monkey does not disturb or antagonize me! And I wonder if the virtual tourist might explore more than the shore?
More virtual travel, still in the tourist mode:
 and the same thing, um, different time of day ... on the way back from the place, that I went to that was there. 
Sweet Silence!
The cam is down because I turned off the server because a storm rolled in. I was also tired of hearing the cooling fan. Now I go to work where I can listen to that set of cooling fans.
Sunday, July 07, 2002
Who Needs Travel?
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