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Internet

Connectivity

I’ve been fighting a real battle the last two weeks to get and hold a stable internet connection. I thought at first it was the cable connection, but that doesn’t seem to be the problem. With university starting and all new neighbors, I think that my wide open wireless router has been getting several customers, […]

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Web

Not typical

The Missouri State Attorney General has filed suit against the holder of web sites such as katrinafamilies.com for not disclosing that the person, Frank Weltner, is a known white supremacist. In fact, you may remember Weltner from another site he owns: jewwatch.com. He is not typical of Missouri, but we sure seem to attract them here. It is a […]

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People

My annual Dear Jan letter

Everyone should have a Jan Sundberg. A nice bit of normalcy did rear it’s head — I’ve had my annual, “F**k you!” from Jan Sundberg. Ever since I first published my four-part articles on the giant squid and cryptozoology and mentioned his rather, shall we say, ‘dubious’ adventures, I’ve had an email once a year, […]

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Environment

Double Crescent

It seemed a bit cooler this evening. When the roommate got home with the car, I hauled my butt down to Powder to go for a walk. The air quality is so bad that it appeared as smudges against the sky, with only a bit of true cloud showing through — touched with red gold […]

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RDF

What’s in a name

Danny Ayers has the start of a great RDF 101 titled RDF, Bottom Up, with promises of more to come. I’ve been working on something similarly named, but quite different in tone for some time now. Just so’s you know, when I every finally get around to putting this online, I didn’t steal the name from […]