Archive for June, 2002

Let’s see if this works…

Last two entries messed up. Let’s try again. I’m coming home early, on Sunday. Don’t bug me about Newtontalk outages, but they’re being looked into. That is all.

I’m here

in Yugoslavia. It is hot. I am taking a lot of photos. I miss Sandy a lot. But I am having a good time. Not going to spend too much time writing here, rather I think I’ll write a whole page and post all the photos when I get back. PS: it’s 4:50pm here.

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 […]