Bad Internet! No Cookies!
May. 14th, 2007 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogBandwidth's been all wonky, pretty much for all of the day today. Just about half the time, my LJ pages load nothing but a grayish-blue screen of death (my background color) and then take minutes to fill in, if they fill in at all. Other assorted pages, usually snap-to-it in their responses, are similar in their plodding: Google (or iGoogle, as it now insists on calling itself when I'm logged into Gmail), either loads in its usual two seconds or just hangs there, never completing the display but also not timing out.
Even stranger, it doesn't seem to be affecting my office email at all; that either displays or reports "nothing for ya, man" without errors.
We've had periodic problems with switchovers from the Adelphia hardware to the supposedly spankin' new Time Warner servers, but most of those have occurred in the middle of the night and were, at least at times, limited to sites requiring secure access. This has been the longest-lasting, and by far most annoying, of all of the recent outages.
Even more funly, we've finally been advised that our old adelphia.net email addresses are on deathwatch, to be replaced with the same names at roadrunner.com. It'd figure that Time Warner would choose this switch to break with their prior protocol of assigning more businesslike-sounding local domain names including city (such as rochester.rr.com) or region (as my sister's is, state.ny.rr.com). Apparently, we get to be the first guinea pigs to have the full meep meep imagery of our ISP's cartoon character-
- gracing our business cards and letterheads. Now if I could only order some working products from Acme to use on opposing attorneys, I wouldn't mind so much, but I believe they were put out of business a few years back after this landmark court decision:
Case No. B19294, W.E. Coyote v. Acme
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In other LJ-bitchery news, I believe my Friendspage may have been spammed, but unlike the several here who've attracted the unwanted attention of one right-wing nutjob or another, I think I may actually like this one:)
At least one of you here's also been Friended by this person, and it seems like a perfectly logical connection based on actual expressions of liking a particular kind of music (whether in entries or just interest-lists or friend-of's, I'm not sure). This may be the new way of getting yourself noticed in the ever-decentralizing music world these days. The LJ name is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wilmaring, (Wil is a she, as it happens), and her musical interests include loves of mine like Joni Mitchell, Nanci Griffith, Lucy Kaplansky, Patty Griffin (down, May), and Mary Chapin Carpenter. She performs solo and with a band called Shady Mix, and the repetoire sounds fascinating.
Since she's Friended me, and since this is public, I'd love to hear more about who she is, where her music can be sampled, and how she came upon me. I'd really prefer a humanish response before deciding how much I like this kind of introduction, but I have every reason to believe I'll get such a response and like what I get.
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Speaking of Nanci, she was the "Not My Job" guest on Wait Wait yesterday. I've downloaded the podcast and will be checking it out before the game tonight. Yes, the series still has at least four games to go, as far as I'm concerned.
Even stranger, it doesn't seem to be affecting my office email at all; that either displays or reports "nothing for ya, man" without errors.
We've had periodic problems with switchovers from the Adelphia hardware to the supposedly spankin' new Time Warner servers, but most of those have occurred in the middle of the night and were, at least at times, limited to sites requiring secure access. This has been the longest-lasting, and by far most annoying, of all of the recent outages.
Even more funly, we've finally been advised that our old adelphia.net email addresses are on deathwatch, to be replaced with the same names at roadrunner.com. It'd figure that Time Warner would choose this switch to break with their prior protocol of assigning more businesslike-sounding local domain names including city (such as rochester.rr.com) or region (as my sister's is, state.ny.rr.com). Apparently, we get to be the first guinea pigs to have the full meep meep imagery of our ISP's cartoon character-
- gracing our business cards and letterheads. Now if I could only order some working products from Acme to use on opposing attorneys, I wouldn't mind so much, but I believe they were put out of business a few years back after this landmark court decision:
Case No. B19294, W.E. Coyote v. Acme
----
In other LJ-bitchery news, I believe my Friendspage may have been spammed, but unlike the several here who've attracted the unwanted attention of one right-wing nutjob or another, I think I may actually like this one:)
At least one of you here's also been Friended by this person, and it seems like a perfectly logical connection based on actual expressions of liking a particular kind of music (whether in entries or just interest-lists or friend-of's, I'm not sure). This may be the new way of getting yourself noticed in the ever-decentralizing music world these days. The LJ name is
wilmaring, (Wil is a she, as it happens), and her musical interests include loves of mine like Joni Mitchell, Nanci Griffith, Lucy Kaplansky, Patty Griffin (down, May), and Mary Chapin Carpenter. She performs solo and with a band called Shady Mix, and the repetoire sounds fascinating. Since she's Friended me, and since this is public, I'd love to hear more about who she is, where her music can be sampled, and how she came upon me. I'd really prefer a humanish response before deciding how much I like this kind of introduction, but I have every reason to believe I'll get such a response and like what I get.
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Speaking of Nanci, she was the "Not My Job" guest on Wait Wait yesterday. I've downloaded the podcast and will be checking it out before the game tonight. Yes, the series still has at least four games to go, as far as I'm concerned.