Just watching the Democratic National Convention coverage on CNN. Immediately after John Kerry‘s speech, several thousand balloons were supposed to fall from the ceiling of the Fleet Center. CNN had a mic on the guy whose job it was to say “go balloons.” He was flipping out. He was so frustrated he actually dropped an f-bomb. (“Where the f— are the balloons?!”)
Also, I just read Lewis’s site. You know — I like to visit it once a month or so to keep his hitcount up. Lord knows the poor kid needs the boost. Anyway, Lewis ripped on the Morrison pics. In response, I will point out the fact that at the top of his site, Lewis points out a “Redesigned Look & Feel.” And I will point out that that’s pretty gay.
Brown called me on the phone yesterday, and we talked briefly about how I still have an RIT account and full user priveleges. A few minutes ago I Telnetted in to rit.edu for kicks. It told me that mail will no longer be emailed to my account because I’m over the storage quota. This happened (at least) once before, and I think the system deleted all my messages. Right now I have over 5,000 messages in my Inbox. I am fairly certain that every single message is spam. It’s not even worth the time to look for messages from real people. I mean, I used to have a story at the really old page about how if anyone were to email me at the old address, I would never respond and that person would think I’m a prick. I posted that story like eighteen months ago. And it’s still an issue.
So anyway, back to today. I was poking around VAX when I found:
Note: “SET FORWARD” at the “EMAIL>” prompt is now obsolete! For mail
preferences changes, including changing your mail forwarding, please
visit:
http://start.rit.edu
Of course, in VAX, the URL wasn’t a link itself, because it’s Telnet, not a web browser. Although you can use LYNX in VAX … hmm … Anyway, I checked it out. It’s really not bad. It’s got a lot of information and services, and it replaces and expands upon the old site (I’ll be damned if I can remember the URL) that you had to type in to register a computer on RIT’s network. It expands upon that site with some account management features. Seeing as how I’ve been stuck in this 23-months-and-counting grace period, and I’ve gotten probably 15,000 spams, I decided to check out the link to manage your mail preferences. It’s a neat page; There’s a box to change your forwarding address, a box to change your personalized address, a place to change your preferences for your listing in the campus directory.
Only problem is, it doesn’t work. I make changes to the fields, hit submit, and get an error message. After closer review I think it’s missing some radio buttons. Oh well. Not like I go there anymore.
I don’t know if anyone noticed. Hell, maybe no one on Earth noticed.
But I changed the font on HC. It used to be Arial, now it’s Verdana. For a few days I didn’t know what to think, but today I think it is better, and I’ll be keeping it.
So how about a cell phone that starts my car? Or unlocks my front door. Not enough security? Make me type in a four-digit code. I’ll scroll through contacts … “Remote Start Car” … 4321. Why not? It already lets me surf the web, check my email, talk to everyone on Earth, and play video games.
Sup Hoss?
Finally. Historical Context at danpremo.com. No more pop-ups. No more ads at the top of the page. No more ads at the bottom of the page. No more ad frames. No more Tripod. I refuse to even link to tripod.com.
My new provider is 1&1. Lewis referred me. I asked Morash for the name of his provider, but 1&1 offerred the best deal with a domain registration included.
Of course, the honeymoon is already over. When I downloaded all my files from Tripod and then uploaded them to danpremo.com, the site didn’t work. Turns out my package does not offer support for Server Side Includes. No SSI? Are they serious? I mean … it’s SSI, not BackOffice.
Anyway, for now I’m basking. If I haven’t done it by now, I’ll be stripping the old site and turning it into a link to the new site. Then there’s the real old site … I have a soft spot in my heart for it. It’s really very much like an old stuffed animal that is faded and falling apart, but that I just can’t get rid of.