June 22, 2001
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Some days, all sorts of disparate things seem to glom together into a big ball of wax. A good ball of wax, but a ball of wax nevertheless. I finally caved in and registered an ICQ account so I can chitty-chat with a photographer friend in Vancouver. He’s atrociously lax at responding to email, yet abnormally perky-eared when it comes to instant messaging. In some way, that figures. If our online discourses end up involving even a fraction of the thematic tangents that our telephone conversations do, I’m definitely going to need to beef up my hand-eye (or more precisely, monitor-keyboard) coordination. What’s the instant messaging equivalent of attention deficit disorder? Whatever it is, he’s stupid with it. Speaking of signing up for new ventures, I just happened to lock in an account over at dyndns.org today as well. Why, you may well ask, does the boy need to hook up with a third-party when he has his own name server humming away in the basement? Suppressing the clever retort which would normally follow such a question, the boy answers simply. You see, there is this Newton-related site that is about to lose its current hosting. Not wanting to see the Newted Community slip into the mist, a small group of like-minded, green-bleeding individuals leapt into the fray and decided to purchase the server from the admin and move it to a new hosting location. Since the site currently uses the dyndns.org system for its primary domain, somebody needs to maintain it. That somebody be the boy. What else is going on today? Hmmm. I dug out the Epson Stylus Pro XL large format printer from the hardware pile, only to realize that the black ink cartridge is dry and the colour one has seen better days. The printer was free, so I’m not at liberty to complain. Well, I’m off to buy some ink… wish me luck.
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