Revisiting my last spurt-and-start here, I did eventually get a Gmail account, but it’s useless to me as I’m on a crippled Mac with only IE available (more below). Gmail requires any IE browser to have activeX enabled in order to use the site, and my employer has thoughtfully disabled activeX, permanently, on all the machines here. Not that I would turn it on if I could, as activeX is stupid and broken. Boo, Gmail.

But yeah, my only internet access is at work, since I did away with my home phone and joined the cellphone revolution. I haven’t gotten around to having enough money to jump on the broadband bandwagon yet. Besides which, DSL isn’t an option without home phone service, and I’m a wee bit leery of my only other option. I need to do something soon though. I’ve been online since I was 15. I’ve had a relationship with the internet longer than I’ve been with my husband. Bandwidth withdrawal is not fun.

So I sent an email to Portland, my old host, requesting that they reset my password, as the password reset thing on their site is very much broken, and 24 hours later my account has been deleted. So fuck them. Blogspot doesn’t have ads and isn’t run by asshats, so it fufills all the requirements I have of a hosting provider right now.

Speaking of the word fuck, there’s a fascinating article at wikipedia on the topic. Most interestingly, the article brought to my attention Cohen v. California, in which the Court ruled that “ … public display of [the word] fuck is protected under the First and Fourteenth Amendments and cannot be made a criminal offense. ”This would have been interesting to know when I was younger and more dangerous.

Laser Tag Veterans For Truth.

The first (potentially) commercially applicable nanotech, a monatomic superconductive fabric. Larry Niven must be pleased. [via /.]

So our sitting president is a scary fundie, and one of our most celebrated olympic athletes (despite all this crap with the judging error) is a big ol’ ‘mo. I for one think that’s just great. Not to say this is in the realm of Jesse Owens or anything, but the irony is worth a chuckle.

So I’ve been using Blogger again for about 45 minutes, and already there’s been a service outage. Classic.

Audio Post.

Goddess give me the strength not to judge people based upon the fact that they care deeply about something as stupid as a baseball game.