Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I think I’m now paying more for my webhosting, but I’m not sure I’m actually getting more bandwidth. I was getting a good deal before and now I’m possibly not. The company I was using DixieSys was acquired sometime back and so my plan no longer exists. If it wasn’t for bandwidth thieves I could [...]

So this week my email and this domain have been down much of the time, why? Well my webhost says we’ve gone over our bandwidth limit and I have a pretty generous bandwidth limit. The worst was losing reliable email, especially since I’m supposed to be trying to find a job. As I suspected when [...]

While trying to look the mei in mei wan ti I came across an expression in my computer’s dictionary which means strong and beautiful. I noted it down as I often do. I write down a lot of Chinese and Japanese but that doesn’t mean I learn it… Anyway while walking to buy an exercise [...]

In my meanderings across the Net I came across Caustic Musings the blog of Miss Maggie Wang. I’ve been secretly reading it on and off for several months. Maggie is very motivated and focussed on self improvemnt. I used to be motivated. I used to try to improve myself. Now I mostly mope, surf the [...]