All Better Now

…apparently. My internet connection, that is. In fact, I may need to call my ISP’s service number to cancel a service call. I put a little thought into it and asked myself why no slowdowns on email send/receive while navigating web pages was horrifically slow all of a sudden. Hmmm… OK, told my router to stop using my ISP’s DNS servers and go back to OpenDNS. Voilà! I know not if others have experienced DNS problems with the ISP’s servers, but I ought to at least let ’em know, eh? (Besides, if folks use other DNS servers, it’ll take some load off the ISP’s servers, ya think? ;-))

Well, perhaps I’ll hold off until tomorrow a.m., since the service man isn’t scheduled until Wednesday afternoon. See if this holds up for a day or so.

Nice to have my connection working properly again, though. You might give thought to checking out OpenDNS. Getting the biggest bang for your buck with the service requires a (free) registration and allows you to have several levels (including a degree of specificity) of filtering. I chose to have OpenDNS filter out obvious phishing sites, but other options are available, including some that would enforce many workplace acceptable use policies, e.g.,

opendns-filtering

(Yeh, all this is probably my fault anyway. I had been using OpenDNS and had great success with it but had switched back to the ISP’s DNS servers and… for some reason sometime this weekend, that just went wonky. Of course I’ll look into that, but I’m perfectly pleased just to have things working now. Moral: if it ain’t broke LEAVE IT ALONE *heh*)

Monday Quote

As to that Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind I speak of so often…

“When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”

–attributed to “Dresden James” (whoever that is)

Sauce for the goose

I say let “the most ethical presidency” live by its own words. Make a disparaging comment slandering a whole class of people and… a simple “Oops! My booboo,” just isn’t enough, according to your own standards, O!

By JAKE TAPPER
April 11, 2007

In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus’ show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television.

“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s…

“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”

Down with the hypocrisy, O! Live up to your own words and “fire” yourself. Man up and resign, goosey.

h.t. Obama Gaffes