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In which the Heartbreak ends

Yes! We have achieved broadband.

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Of course I know that title tempts fate. I now expect flames to erupt from my DSL modem at any moment.

Wow. My New Post page loaded in seconds and saves in seconds. Amazing!

If you’re wondering what the LOLcat has to do with my at last achieving broadband, the [...]

A Great Leap Forward

No, not this one:

Hope this one works out better than that one.

My personal Great Leap Forward: I finally sucked it up and signed up for DSL from SWCP. Yay!

The Heartbreak of Dialup shall soon be healed!

Of course it’ll bring with it sundry attendant hassles. Sigh. I look forward to much arduousness getting [...]

Eating carrots

No, seriously. How does anyone eat a whole raw carrot? It takes me an hour to chew my way through half a carrot. At the end of which my face needs a nap.

It also just took 10 minutes for the “Add New Post” page to load.

That’s it. I’m going DSL. Tomorrow it’s off to Southwest [...]

Revenge of the nerds

I’m looking to make the long-deferred move to broadband, simply because the Heartbreak of Dialup™ has become too, well, heartbreaking. Plus on those occasions I actually need to use the Net in the course of my occupation (it happens) it’s no more rewarding or useful to spend minutes waiting for a page to load than [...]