Books.

_The Last Hero_, Terry Pratchett.

It's Pratchett, and it's after he hit his stride, so it's good. Cohen the Barbarian and the Horde assault Dunmanifestin, the mountaintop home of the gods, and Carrot, Leonardo da Quirm and Rincewind try to stop them. Hijinks ensue.

Books.

_The Last Hero_, Terry Pratchett.

It's Pratchett, and it's after he hit his stride, so it's good. Cohen the Barbarian and the Horde assault Dunmanifestin, the mountaintop home of the gods, and Carrot, Leonardo da Quirm and Rincewind try to stop them. Hijinks ensue.

Comcast: Avoid.

It appears that after 10 years of running my own mail server and being responsible for my own mail, Comcast has decided to shut down inbound port 25 sometime this morning.

Mail to tao.merseine.nu is down.

If this is the case, I will stop being a Comcast customer as soon as possible. I did not sign up with Comcast: I signed up with MediaOne. AT&T bought them. Then Comcast bought the cable service from AT&T. Over time, the prices went up, the bandwidth went up, and the quality of customer support went down.

My choices are Verizon FIOS and RCN. VZ would be OK for network access, but I dislike their TV offering, and I don't want them ripping out my copper. Looks like RCN.

[later] After talking to four people at Comcast for 32 minutes, they claim that I am a spammer. How stopping inbound email will stop me from spamming I do not know. My blood pressure is much, much, much too high.

Comcast: Avoid.

It appears that after 10 years of running my own mail server and being responsible for my own mail, Comcast has decided to shut down inbound port 25 sometime this morning.

Mail to tao.merseine.nu is down.

If this is the case, I will stop being a Comcast customer as soon as possible. I did not sign up with Comcast: I signed up with MediaOne. AT&T bought them. Then Comcast bought the cable service from AT&T. Over time, the prices went up, the bandwidth went up, and the quality of customer support went down.

My choices are Verizon FIOS and RCN. VZ would be OK for network access, but I dislike their TV offering, and I don't want them ripping out my copper. Looks like RCN.

[later] After talking to four people at Comcast for 32 minutes, they claim that I am a spammer. How stopping inbound email will stop me from spamming I do not know. My blood pressure is much, much, much too high.