Get In Touch With Your Metrosexual Side…
Posted on June 24, 2003 at 3:09 pm | No Comments
I’m quite comfortably able to report that while Matt and Jason may consider themselves budding Metrosexuals, I am clearly no such creature. I will not be categorized, Mr. Marketing Man.
I loathe shopping (fortunately Amie does enough for the both of us), and up until a couple weeks ago, the only hair styling products I’ve ever used were in my Robert Smith wig, on Halloween night, 1989. I’ve never picked up a pair of Diesel Jeans, I don’t even know what the hell those magazines are that those guys are talking about. Give me a good beer before a glass of wine any day of the week. (Seriously, give me one. Please? It’s been a rough day.)
Then again, I believe another indicator of Metrosexuality (or, as Jason says, “lady lovin homos”), is neatness. And I am, if anything, compulsively neat.
Matter o’ fact, the first time Amie ever walked into my apartment, she thought… “Oh my god, he lives alone, his place is incredibly neat, well decorated, he’s got a cat… and he’s not gay. I could marry this guy.” And so she did.
That’s besides the point, though. One symptom does not a metrosexual make.
Oh, wait, there’s the yoga lessons… and Trading Spaces on the TiVo. Awwwww crap.
Fixed : Accessing the Almanac, Not Fixed : Accessing the MoveOn Virtual Primary
Posted on June 24, 2003 at 11:07 am | No Comments
If you’re a semi-regular surfer to my site, you’ve probably noticed the occasional instance when you’d try to get here and you’d just… well, hang. And then you’d get an error. The old familiar “Page Cannot Be Displayed” message.
Well, to quote an ex-girlfriend… “It’s not you, it’s me.”
Apparantly my registrar (aka the company I registered my domain name with) had trouble pointing to the correct IP address for my webserver. Basically, it wasn’t always able to talk to the Domain Name Servers (DNS) at my webspace provider.
After some phone calls and a few tech support emails, my provider finally forked over some new DNS server names to give my registar… apparantly the ones they originally gave me (DNS1 and DNS2) were so old they were gathering mold. I switched over to DNS5 and DNS6, and voila. No more connection issues.
Oh, sorry, did I just put you to sleep?
To summarize : It was broke, now it’s not.
Getting here should be far less annoying from now on. As for the actual content… well, I can’t promise anything there.
In other “Page Cannot Be Displayed” news…
MoveOn.org, the online political action organization that boasts 1.4 million members, officially started it’s “virtual primary” today, where registered participants can vote online for their preferred Democratic Presidential Candidate. If any one of the candidates gets more than 50% of the vote, MoveOn will endorse them… and that’s an pretty big deal.
Unfortunately, soon after voting opened this morning, their webservers took a nosedive and crashed hard. Not ready for the volume of traffic, apparantly. Slightly embarrassing for them, but exciting to know that so many people are interested in this political picking and clicking.
If you look to the upper right, you can probably guess who I’m planning to vote for, so I hope I actually get to vote. It’d be a shame if this whole thing gets spoiled by an unprepared, if well-intentioned, IT crew.
12:30pm – an update : It looks like they’re back up and limping. It’s possible to get through, but it might take more than a few attempts. Consider my vote cast and counted.