Holy shit! I have a broadband connection and man is it fast. It’s the Charter Pipeline deal the cable company does. I signed up for only the cheapest one and it moves like lightning. Only bad thing is that no more internet at work. Oh well.

It’s great having a working computer again. But I can’t help feel like I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. I guess I have had it working so many times like it was fine, just to have it go to hell on me later. I have my fingers crossed.

I talked to the guy who runs the Coleman Posse website on AIM the other day. It wasn’t a major conversation, it was just a polite hello. I really like the guy, for what I know of him. I urge everyone to go check his site if you have not yet. Apparently he’s been getting some shit from some assholes saying he’s copying another site’s whole vibe. Which is bullshit. Go check him out for yourself.

And for good measure here are two other links I found at the Coleman Posse links page. Hotmail Sucks and Tourist of Death. Both of these sites are done by the same person.

Hotmail Sucks made me laugh hard reading about his problems with some AOL user bitching about his Tourist of Death website. After telling the AOl user to “go punch yourself in the balls” the AOL guy narks him out to Hotmail and his account gets yanked. It’s funny stuff and the amazing thing was when the Hotmail Sucks host backed up the guys rights when the little bitch of AOL user e-mailed the website host to complain.

South Beloit Ramada improvements begin is an Rockford Register Star Online article from the 6th of this month I missed when it first appeared. Here is a couple bits worth pointing out:

…a new roof was added to one of the wings.

and

…the hotel’s heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system has been repaired.

I am of course not saying the Rockford Register Star is lying. The roof thing I could be wrong about. But I find it odd that last night I’m told to be expecting complaints because the ac was on the fritz again. I’m just saying their fact checking skills are a little weak. Take it how you will.

Well I some action in the GuestBook the last couple of days. It’s kind of funny because it something everyone has done. I’m not talking about signing the GuestBook. I’m talking about signing it as two different people just to pimp two different websites. Either that it’s two guys using the same computer and internet service provider. Both Chuck and Mark have the same ip address. Any way here is what they had to say:

Name: Mark
Comments:

I visited your site and wanted to comment on how visually appealing it is. Nice work

When you have time please visit my site.

and

Name: Chuck
Comments:

I really enjoyed what I read. Don’t change a thing. Please visit my site when you get a chance.

Now I’m not trying to complain or anything. It’s just there is no need to beat around the bush with me. So frick and frack here have some websites.

Mark has UMoveFree.com a site that offers that they are “…committed to helping you and your family find the best possible place to live and save you time and money.” This guy is operating out of Texas, so it makes me wonder if the Dude sent him my way.

Chuck’s site Orlando Hotels Motels & Resorts is something that would on the surface seem related to my humble site. Chuck says he enjoyed what he read. But I wonder if he really read anything. The last This And That was a pretty harsh look on how I feel about hotel guests. Chuck’s site is trying to be helpful to possible hotel guests. That is just something I don’t do.

Either way it was good to have the two of you and thanks for the nice comments about my site.

It’s the little things that make me happy. Coranto, the script I use to update this site has a great community. Their forum is the only place to find help with the script. The people there help with the development of the script because the guy who created it has gone awol.

I’m not the biggest contributor to the forum. I have only 60 posts or so. I keep to myself and only chime in every once in a while. So I always get a kick when I interact with those guys who live on that forum. And that’s not an insult. This year it was one of the guys on the forum who wished me happy birthday before anyone I knew had done so. It’s little things like that that make me proud to be in the community.

Sumaleth has been writing up some documention for using Coranto and has a number of how to’s. The how to for headlines has my headline style shown in the picture at the top of the page. Now it may just be a random grab or not. I see stuff like that and think it’s very cool.

I have been meaning to get around to put up a post that tells that the search feature and the news commenting system are both on the fritz.

The search function is totally fubared. The comments work. But you are going to get an error message. If you do post a comment and get the error don’t worry it’s been posted.

Well my old friend Kenan signed the GuestBook again. He was pleased about the photo.

this web site is now filled with the presence of the dark side.

You also can find that pic and some other old timers here.