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| Friday, September 7, 2001 |
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Hell, cont'd 
| | This morning at about 10-something Joyce and I both noticed that the Net connection was down. What followed was four solid hours of touble-shooting hubs, router, wiring, cable modem, settings and other crap, including far too much time on the phone. |
| | Macsense has no tech support worthy of the name. If I had known that it consisted of an answer machine, I wouldn't have bought the product. "Leave a message and we'll call back sometime in the next 48 hours," it said. |
| | The probelm was the Macsense XRouter Aero, which had abruptly decided to stop routing and needed to be disconnected and reset. My fault was not knowing that I had to re-enter a bunch of Cox information through the router's browser interface. |
| | Cox@Home was delivering the service just fine, and in fact has outstanding tech support involving no phone-wait at all. But they did say they had recently closed "the port most people use for servers" because they wanted to "prevent viruses from getting on the Net." (Yeah, right.) |
| | I still have no idea how to make the Airport work. This is also my fault. When I loaned it to the people at Linux World Expo (who ended up refusing to use it because it was an "Apple branded product" and therefore politically incorrect, they thought, for the very Linux crowd that was glad somebody brought something), they apparently set it up with a password I can't guess. Even resetting the box makes no difference. Suggestions are welcome. |
I love it when you blog that way
| | I agree with everything John S. Rhodes says on Webword about Microsoft vs. Google (in their radically different approaches to controlling vs. informing a user's experience). And I love his voice. It's so real, so conversational and human. Terrific stuff. I just added the blog to the rolling list on the right. |
| | Speaking of which, there is no special order to that list. It's set up so I edit in raw HTML, which means I add a blog by just opening the list up and adding a line somewhere in the middle. What I'd really like (and maybe it exists), is for the list to be automatically augmented by all the referers who show up currently. |
| | In fact, I just discovered in that list that this blog is back among Yahoo's ten "most popular" blogs. That's in spite of having good but unexceptional numbers lately. |
Photodigilalia?
| | What obsessive/compulsive disease do I risk by knowing how easy it is to take any one of the 25 frames per second (or is it 30? I forget) this new Sony camcorder shoots and turn it into a not-bad 72dpi still I can put on the Web? Believe me, I am exercising extreme restraint by not succumbing... .yet. |
| | Meanwhile, by request, here's Jeffrey and his big sister Colette at Knapp's Castle last weekend: |
Public information
| | Dean points to the existence of published noncommercial radio station ratings. Here are the most recent ratings for stations in the New York area. Here are the ones for Chicago, L.A. and San Diego. Here are the ones for Sacramento and San Francisco. With a 4.0 share and a cumulative audience of 567,000 people, KQED in San Francisco is easily one of the top stations overall in the metro. Minneapolis has no less than three public stations with knockout ratings: KNOW, KSJN and KTIS-AM/FM. KVOD in Denver rates a 4.5, which is the best I've seen yet. No, look here: KUNC in Ft. Collins gets a 7.9. WSKG/WSQG in Ithaca gets a 13.5! And in my old home metro of Raleigh-Durham, WCPE gets a 5.6 while WUNC gets a 5.8. Pretty nice (and WUNC should do even better now that my old friend Joan Siefert Rose is running the show). I want to find Santa Barbara, but I have to hit the sack. |
| | Still, it feels real good to know that the noncoms do as well as I always thought they did. And the way things are going on the commercial band, they're sure to keep doing better. After all, they're the ones whose market is listeners, not advertisers. |
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