Distribution

It has occurred to me that there are about two people besides myself who ever look at this page. Far from disappointing, it is rather chummy, and I don't much mind. However, there seem to be a lot of folks who could be looking and aren't aware of the location. I am very disinclined to mass email alerts about the existence of this page, and probably would forget after two or three trips to the page anyway...
My friend Kevin was trying to tell me about the reasons people return to webpages. First, they have to expect to find fresh content. Second, if it can be interactive, that's better. Third, if it allows them to short circuit the mess everywhere else (like an aggregator) then that makes it useful. The only other reason people go anywhere on the internet is the quest to relieve ennui, or the never ending search for photos of naked women. I can't offer much to make your lives less tiresome, and won't be posting nudy pics here...
In short, thanks to my few readers, and a long apology for lack of anything to say.

I went to mass this morning. The recessional was a sort of jazzy hymn, sounded a lot like take 5 on the first few bars of drum and bass, then got fast lyrics riding over the top of it...

Also, I recently reimplemented my wireless network. Since the phone line is run to the garage, and does not work in the house, the router for my dsl lives in the garage. From my office, which is on the south side of the house (nearest the garage) I get a tolerable signal. But from the living room ten feet further (and one wall) the signal is transient, at best. A few weeks ago I tried to install a dlink range extender, but found out that it only works with Dlink routers... it saw the router in the garage fine, but for whatever reason (I think it was more marketing than engineering) it refused to communicate with mine. I returned it and added a second wireless router. It stayed in the garage for a few weeks, and left a marginally better footprint. After a long tiresome struggle to get it pleasant, and after riding on a neighbors unsecured connection for a week or two (I think that's a federal crime?) I moved it into the house, and tied a ethernet wireless client to it, setting it up in the office. Now I get an uninterrupted high quality connection... I'm sure there is an increase in latency since it leaves the living room, hits the office router, goes out on its external interface, moves to the pocket router in client mode, hits the router in the garage and becomes a dsl signal... I find it's not bad once the DNS lookups are out of the way. Big delay getting to the garage. I sometimes miss wires.

1  192.168.2.1  2.909 ms   0.636 ms   0.699 ms
2  * * *
3  tukw-dsl-gw13-205.tukw.qwest.net (63.231.10.205)  45.926 ms   43.922 ms   43.668 ms
4  tukw-agw1.inet.qwest.net (63.231.10.93)  45.473 ms   44.504 ms   43.873 ms
5  tuk-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.11.97)  44.928 ms   47.444 ms   57.397 ms
6  svl-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.12.6)  62.616 ms   61.623 ms   62.095 ms
7  pax-brdr-02.inet.qwest.net (205.171.214.38)  62.857 ms   62.005 ms   64.222 ms
8  205.171.4.170  64.071 ms *   63.748 ms
9  * * *
10  66.249.94.10  65.579 ms   63.101 ms   77.231 ms