You might have noticed that the server was unavailable for most of yesterday. There’s a reason for that – HUGE XBOX BIG UPGRADE to the dsl line. We’re now cooking with gas… 1.5mb/s down (for me) 864kb/s up (for you). That’s a 315% increase in speed for serving up webpages.

A huge thanks to my wife, David, and Michael for getting things up and running while I’m out of town! And it wasn’t even down for a full day (I was told it might be down up to 5).

I called my son and asked what he thought of it. All he could say was “I’m in a game… AND I’VE GOT A PING OF 5!!!”.

Good ’nuff.

And speaking of my son, it’s his 15th birthday today! I gave him his gifts from me before I left: an Asus Geforce FX 5200 with 128mb of DDR and a very cool case fan (and yes, I ordered it from that site. They have good prices, reasonable shipping, and they are fast. XPCGear gets the WWBD seal of approval!!!).

Oh… one last thing. Apparently I’ve misspelled Pittsburgh in the last several posts. While I’ve corrected it, I want you to know that I don’t proof read any of this crap. It comes as it is. No warranty is implied. Your results may vary. Rinse, lather, repeat. I’m also a lousy speller.

But I’m sexy, and that’s all that matters.