Here's what I've been having to deal with this weekend inregards to my website.

02/28/04 1600 CST: We are currently experiencing problems with our upstream transport provider. We are working on the issue and hope it have it resolved ASAP. At the moment there is no ETA. Please bear with us as we work with the telco to resolve this problem.

02/29/04 1746 CST: Latest update we have is that CTSI is enroute with a GIG-E test kit, and replacement card(s) for their equipment. No further information is available at this time. When we have such information, we will make it available to you.

02/29/04 1807 CST: Circuit is up but not for good. It came back up by itself without anything getting repaired by CTSI--just like it did last night. It is being taken down for testing by CTSI shortly tonight. Hopefully they will finally get to the bottom of this and fix the stability and packet loss on their equipment once and for all.

02/29/04 1816 CST: CTSI is taking down the circuit completely for testing tonight, rather than to have this ongoing until a new fiber is installed. This is a nightmare for us as well, as we feel all of your pain and stress because of an incompetent telco cannot seem to quickly fix their equipment once and for all. As you can imagine this is not easy for us either.

This is so frustrating. If it's not up by tomorrow I'm just going to have no choice but to keep waiting impatiently. I'd do more but there really isn't much I can do. Oh and I saw Mike Lee's post about G. Dub. I live in Texas and believe me, not everyone likes him. Personally, I think he's an idiot. I just wanted to let you know that not all Texans are as dumb as most of us.

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There was a minor stir this morning when a picture from the newest prototype Hiptop was posted. (See here for original post) The picture has been removed now but because I don't get what the big deal is and I happened to save it before it was removed: Enjoy!


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It looks like lonerisks.com is back up. Two hours of downtime. I guess that's not too bad. As far as I know that's the only downtime I've ever had so I that's tolerable. Anyway, check out the updates and let me know what you think.

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Well, my webhosting company decided to have connectivity issues right when I updated my site and posted about it. The links in my previous post didn't work when I tried them so I checked the status of my server. I get this message:

02/26/04 0836 CST: The New Jersey Data Center in experiencing upstream connectivity issues. Techs are aware and are working with the connectivity providers to resolve the problem.

Great timing guys, like two minutes after I post my links. Hopefully it won't last long.

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I had to stay up too late but I got my site updated. I added a new wallpaper and a new animation. I have a few other things I'm going to add in the next few days too. I just wish I could stay this productive with my site all the time.

I also got everything installed in my computer. The combination of the rounded cables and the new fan helped my case temps drop around 5 degress Celsius. That's pretty darn good.

I'm thinking slowly today so here is the point where I cut myself off from writing more.

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Yesterday my cables and last case fan arrived. They delivered it to the apartment office but the FedEx guy didn't leave me a note so I didn't pick it up until today. So now I'm going to have my good rounded data cables and a total of five case fans in my case! It was already kind of loud but after this fifth one I'm really going to need that fan controller.

I should also probably get that power supply that I've been looking at so all this stuff runs smoother. And I've been debating getting a new heatsink and fan but if I stay with the stock one I don't void my 3 year warranty.

I stayed up until about 3am last night working on another animation for my site. It's longer than the previous ones and I think it's better looking too. I haven't put it up yet but I should do that tonight. Check out the site tomorrow for that and a few other updates. And email me if you like any of it.

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Coburbr, just in case you change your mind about the tatoo I made a quick mock-up for you. You know, just think about it. No pressure.

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I tried Mountain Dew's Amp Energy Drink for the first time today. It's not too bad. I think I'll always be a Red Bull kinda guy. But that's only because I had one almost every day on the slopes when I was a snowboard bum.

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Thinkgeek.com has a funny section where customers can get a fortune. I was refreshing it and I got a funny one:

"Some people are like slinkies. Generally useless, but you still can't help but chuckle when you see one of them tumbling down the stairs."

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I went ahead and ordered one more case fan with quad blue leds, one round floppy cable and two dual round ide cables. With shipping it was all under $20 so that's not too bad. Now that I'm going to have five case fans I should probably get that fan controller that I've been looking at. It's supposed to work great and match my case beautifully. Hmmm.....

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