February 23rd, 2011 12:00:31 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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February 19th, 2011 4:00:14 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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February 14th, 2011 9:00:38 am pst by Sterling Camden
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February 9th, 2011 3:00:34 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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February 9th, 2011 11:28:57 am pst by Sterling Camden
Up until December, I was pretty happy with Qwest. Even though we could only get 1.5/1.0 over DSL here, we got it reliably. Then all of a sudden, it went down the tubes — or rather, it stopped traversing said tubes. Service failed about a dozen times in December, and was down for as long as eight hours each time. They were having trouble with a DSLAM. That’s understandable, and I retained my patience until about the fifth or sixth time it went down.
I checked into 4G wireless Internet, but here on remote Bainbridge Island it just isn’t ready for prime time.
As much as I hate even remembering my past history with Comcast, I decided to use them for Internet service. I’ve had it for about a month now, it hasn’t gone down yet (knocks on head) and I’ve only had to recycle the modem twice. Best of all, I reliably get 14/6 or thereabouts, which saves me a lot of time working with remote clients.
I finally turned off the Qwest DSL line today. The email confirmation contained this image at the top:
I think they may be right.
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February 7th, 2011 4:03:52 pm pst by Sterling Camden
You may have noticed a few changes here at Chip’s Quips, as well as at my other blogs. I’ve changed the theme on all three to do less:
- Less overriding of colors and text styling
- Less padding and margins
- Fewer images
My goals in so doing were simple:
- Load faster
- Fit more content into less space
- Conflict less with user preferences
That last point was triggered by my own. In keeping with my darker GTk theme, I changed my Firefox default text colors to green on black. You’d be surprised how many web sites override text color without specifying background color, or vice versa — and they almost always assume that the default will be black on white. A lesson there for web designers: if you specify either text color or background color, please specify both. In any case, I can now read my own sites in green on black without imposing that preference on my three other readers, by leaving both foreground and background unspecified.
You’ll notice that links also use the default colors specified in your browser preferences, nor have I made any effort to remove their “text decoration” (normally underline).
I’ve even implemented my very own theme music which plays automatically on each page load. In keeping with my minimalist site design, it is composed of an infinite number of rests having a duration of zero milliseconds each.
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February 4th, 2011 3:00:16 pm pst by Sterling Camden
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January 31st, 2011 3:00:28 am pst by Sterling Camden
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January 27th, 2011 10:01:04 am pst by Sterling Camden
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