Friday, March 7, 2003

In Champaign, IL for the

In Champaign, IL for the evening. Driving to Pittsburgh, PA tomorrow (3/8/03).

e.p.c. posted this at 20:36 GMT on 7-Mar-2003 .

The NY Times has started

The NY Times has started using some sort of interstitial ad which, at least on my generic WinXP system, is totally hosed. The symptoms are: I click on a link to go to a story, nothing appears to happen though you see the "Loading..." message in the status bar. After 20-30 seconds you get an annoying Microsoft interstitial ad. After that you can click around to skip the ad. Unfortunately for the Times, I'm not that patient.

e.p.c. posted this at 20:40 GMT on 7-Mar-2003 .

I am on the very

I am on the very wrong end of dialup for the first time in many, many moons and it is very painful.

e.p.c. posted this at 20:59 GMT on 7-Mar-2003 .

Ugh...Columbus

I have to drive through Columbus, OH on my way back to Brooklyn.

e.p.c. posted this at 23:19 GMT on 7-Mar-2003 .

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