"Big" Decision

Finally! We have an appointment for Wednesday (05.19.04) to get Comcast cable internet installed. I have been waiting for this day for a long while.

In other news...

Google's bid to take over the world seems not too far off, and they are updating their services to reflect their newfound wealth (ok, not yet but certainly after the IPO). One service that I'm excited about is GMail, Google's free e-mail client. I'm so tired of AOL and of course once we get Comcast up and running I'll be using one of their accounts. But GMail sounds intriguing and I'll definitely try it once it becomes available to the public.

Another of the services they've freshened is Blogger, which you may recall was my blog-of-choice before moving to Xanga. The real reason for moving to Xanga was its ease of posting and the ability for other Xanga users (some of whom I count as friends) to post comments. While I don't seem to have received any comments to date, I still like the idea of people having the ability to post. The final reason for switching to Xanga was the loss of my T1 connection to the internet and my handy static IP address, which allowed me to run my computer as a server on OU's network. Well, Google seems to have fixed all of Blogger's shortcomings when it comes to Xanga and I'll soon have webspace with Comcast if I decide not to run my computer as a server again (which invites all sorts of hacker-type attacks). In addition, Blogger seems to be more standards-compliant than Xanga and therefore Opera 7.5 (the best browser out there) likes it a lot better than Xanga. It's a good thing for me I haven't done too many posts to this thing so it won't be too hard to migrate.

Look for my new-and-improved blog to debut somewhere on the internet next week. I'll of course make one last post here to let everyone know where it's gone. And for those of you who are wondering, no, you do not have to be a Blogger user to leave comments with Blogger. Anyone in the world can. And that's a lot of people.