Daily Rambling
I'm sort of tempted to bring my work home with me, and bitch about the deplorable state of the Realms (online play) of Diablo II now, since that's pretty much all that's going on with my *job* website work, as I think of it.  Go read the updates there if you want to though, I like to enjoy the stuff I do on this site, and not cover gaming here (unless/until I get into a new game that I'm not working on a website about) so I'll refrain from saying more about it.

Both are in, both work fine, I.E. I can connect the CM plug to either of them and be online.  However only one shows up in the system info, and I can't get any sort of network connection at all now; it's as if the other PC doesn't exist, and it won't work online at all now either.  Network set up wizard (misnamed, he's no better than a prestidigitator on a good day) has an option for my configuration, but it won't let me even attempt it, just says I have no network connection.  I've set the 2nd PC to the proper way, but the main one that I'm using now won't play ball, possibly because it's only using one NIC at a time.  But the lights are on for both, and the HUB lights up when I plug in the ethernet cable.

Yes, it's almost as boring to work on as type or read about.  I'll have to talk to the guy who was going to set up my system in the first place, he could probably fix it all in 30 minutes, and it would be worth the half hour labor to get it working.  I must transfer all of my pr0n from the old machine to this one, after all.

Anyway, I called the CC company that day and found out my credit limit was $500, instead of the $2500 it had been for years, and got no real explanation for why, other than that I wasn't using the card much.  On the phone they said they could raise it to $800, and I said fine, planning on canceling it.  I was opening letters last night, had about a week's worth of them sitting around [I hate opening up letters and bills (same thing, 99% of the time) more than life itself.] and on top of the four pre-approved credit card offers were two slim letters from my current company, sent on the same day.

I opened the first and it was what I'd heard on the phone, notice that my credit line was up to $800.  "Whoopee-fucking-doo", in the immortal words of Hicks (Aliens).

The second, otherwise identical letter said my credit line was up to $2500.  "Hey man, maybe you haven't been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked!" in more immortal words from Hicks.

I'm not celebrating, I really couldn't give a damn, I'll not want to buy anything for more than $500 in the foreseeable future (I hope, certainly can't afford it.) with the computer being the first thing that much I bought in living memory for that much.  The last before then was the glorious 21" Sony G500 monitor I'm staring at right now, which was about $900 in the summer of 2000.  The last before that was $1100 for the rim job and all access pass to the Bukkaki marathon from those hot blonde twins on that Vegas trip.  So I don't buy much, but as you can see I have impeccable taste, and it's all well worth the coin.

This site should actually start becoming visible soon, I did indeed sign up for hosting and register the domain name last night, and it's gone through.  I can edit my email preferences and other site features on the host now, but I've yet to see the IP# for the server to FTP up to.  So even if the DNS had refreshed for your ISP, and you typed in www.blackchampagne.com, you'd just get a 404 error, or maybe the www.hostsave.com main page, if they have it set up to redirect that way.

I think I'm about ready to upload, if I had somewhere to upload to.  There are a dozen or so content pages, 15 or so past daily ramblings, and that's good enough for a start.  I need to spiff up the navigation some though, and get a Ramblings main page, and I think I'll do a short description of each rambling as I add a link to it.  Looking at other blog sites I tend to find the navigation lacking, unless you just want to read every single blog they ever did as you click "yesterday" over and over again.  Or else type in a date into the page URL, which usually works if it's done with some sort of logical system, and not some goddamn script that sorts the old stuff in illogical letter code page and folder names.  I'm real low-tech here, at least for now, all done by hand, and my semi-intensive web work experience has taught me the joys and requirements of very short, logical page names, and good filing systems, if you ever want to find anything again.

And that's the other reason to do a Blogs/Ramblings/Dailies main page, so I'd be able to find my own past writing.  I've already forgotten the topic of ¾ of them, and it's only been a month or so.  In six months I wouldn't have a clue what any of them were about, and I know that I'll want to refer back to past comments from time to time, and do so more quickly than I could if I have to read them all again and wonder "what the hell was I thinking when I wrote that?".

To rephrase that tortured paragraph, there will be a main Ramblings archive page with a short description of every day's blabbing, and a link to it.

And yes, I deserve a cookie.  In fact I'll do that now!  (The archive page, not the cookie.)

/me has no cookies. =(

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