Smell that? Baseball season is just around the corner!

You can be the first on your block to join the Foldedspace Baseball League. If you've got a valid yahoo userid and you'd like to join the fun, e-mail me for the league id and password.

Okay.

I called Omnis Hosting several times this morning but was immediately routed to voice mail. But their phone system wouldn't let me leave voice mail.

Argh.

Eventually one of my calls was answered by Mr. Surly. He wouldn't give me my new ftp password ("We e-mailed it to the address on the account." -- "Yes, but I didn't receive it." -- "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do."), and he claimed that the problems with weblog commenting and entry posting were due to my broken scripts.

Only after I hung up the phone did I realize that Mr. Surly was talking out of his ass. I called back.

This time a nice fellow named Ed answered. He asked me some questions about my account and, when he felt assured that it was safe to do so, he gave me the new ftp password. I told him abut the weblog problems, and he offered to post a comment so that he could see the error himself. "Yup, it was broken," he told me when he came back on the line. "When we applied the security patches yesterday, the sysadmin forgot to activate a couple of perl modules. We fixed it."

In two minutes?

"Why did Mr. Surly tell me that the problem was with my scripts?" I asked him.

"Hm. I have no idea," he said.

Right. And that's why I'm going to look at the competition, where hosting costs less and comes with more features. And no Mr. Surly.

Once my ftp access had been restored and my weblog was purring along again, I decided to upload the photos I scanned last night. I jacked my iBook into the network and connected via ftp and …

blackness

…apparently when I put my iBook to sleep last night, I didn't close the lid all the way. Or something. Its batteries have been sucked dry and I don't have the power adapter with me. I guess the photographs will have to wait for tomorrow. It's going to be anticlimactic to post them now, too; they're just run-of-the-mill photography class pictures, but I've encountered so many obstacles to posting them, that it feels like they ought to be works of art.

If only.

Over the past couple weeks, my rock-solid Windows 2000 system at work has begun to show cracks. Specifically, Internet Explorer crashes several times a day; fortunately, it does not bring the entire system down with it.

I've changed nothing about my work habits. I haven't installed new software.

My hypothesis is that some page I visit frequently has implemented some new javascript (or some such) that IE hates, or that some pop-up ad has done the same. I suspect the latter because I haven't detected any particular browsing pattern that causes the crashes.

On this day at foldedspace.org

2005 — Sweet!   Napoleon Dynamite isn't a film for everyone. I understand why some people hate it. And I understand that most of the kids who love it, love it in an ironic way. Me, I love it outright.

2004 — Amend This   I'm neither for nor against gay marriage, just as I'm neither for nor against any other type of marriage. I certainly don't understand in what way the issue is worthy of a Constitutional amendment.