Spent the night in the

Spent the night in the new house (after two nights at the W Union Square...highly recommended if you're ever in Manhattan). Got the DSL working finally. Appears that Verizon was the source of the problem (no surprise), not Cloud9.

Argh. On the plus side,

Argh. On the plus side, the ADSL is indeed working, and I managed to get the wifi gateway running as well (which is absolutely necessary since none of the Cat-5e is terminated yet). On the minus side...our painter called me at work to tell that water was leaking into the kitchen area. It's actually just in front of the kitchen, right under the door to the deck on the upper floor. There wasn't much water, however there's no telling where the water is actually coming in or where it's flowing it, it just conveniently found the place where the electricians had to punch a hole to drip through.

From the weird WiFi files

From the weird WiFi files department... Linksys 802.11 PC Card in my company issued Thinkpad T21 gets excellent signal but can't for the life of it get an IP address from the LinkSys AP across the room (maybe 3 metres at most). Same card, in a Thinkpad X21, connects fine.