Archive for the my ramblings category

what a beautiful state I’m in

Where has all the time gone? I don’t know, but let’s not answer that question right now. Let’s try to write and submit this whole entry before I accidentally close Mozilla and lose half of it. Good idea. So what do I have to talk about? First, a confession. When I first heard that Kylie […]

I got no title

NTLK is not down – that’s old news. More new news to come soon.

Yes, Newtontalk is back down.

Insert threatening remarks to Verizon employees here.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming, broadcast from Greyhound bus number 6430…

This was written yesterday by me on the bus ride home. Apparently I’m not the only person who thinks that most of the Toronto -> Guelph Greyhound drivers are morons. One guy waiting for the 3:30 with me today suggested applying electro-Shock therapy to some of them. Luckily today the driver of the 3:30 is […]

from the mouth of Bill Shamam

Final info from Bill about the Newtontalk outage: Folks, Just to clarify some things I’ve seen on the list and on chuma.org, The outage was no fault of our ISP (PINS). It was actually caused by faulty wiring in the basement of my building. The wiring is Verizon’s property and responsibility (they’re no better than […]

Newtontalk.net is back! Rejoice!

Go there and bask in the glory of the Newton!

it’s still down

Yes, Newtontalk is still down. I haven’t gotten a copy of the subscriber list yet. If you’re very Newtontalk-deprived, you can always check out the old NewtonTalk2 backup list on Yahoo! Groups, which has sprung to life again.

what is happening with Newtontalk, you ask?

Here’s the 411: Sometime this weekend, PINS.net, the provider to Guns Media, who host the Newtontalk.net server, messed something up, causing Guns’ T1 connection to go down. This was soon noticed by me and other Guns people, who wondered what was going on. After some running around and trans-atlantic phone calls, we found out from […]

Newtontalk.net and newyork.unna.org are down

Both of the above sites are down for now. I am working on getting a copy of the Newtontalk subscriber list so I can send a general announcement. More to come.

this page now over 20,000 hits old

I’m getting a little tired of this layout. It doesn’t lend itself to rapid updates, which is maybe why I don’t do them. Glenn Gould and discarded newspapers, outside the CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto. Do any American tourists know what this is? Probably not, ’cause they’re too busy riding in rickshaws that have ads like […]