Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

I finally have broadband! :)

You might recall that I didn't have broadband internet access the entire time I was in the Bay Area, and that I wasn't too happy about that.

Last night I moved into a room in Irvine where I'll be staying while I'm working down here. They have COX Cable Internet access, and 3 IP leases (of which 1 is for the room I'm in). I couldn't get it working last night, DHCP should have just worked.

Today I learned (from the previous tenant,who happens to be a co-worker) the cable modem agressively held the lease for his TiBook's MAC address (MAC addresses are unique IDs for ethernet devices... therefore, my IP was still reserved for his machine and his machine only). So we just turned off the cable modem for a couple minutes, turned it on, and BINGO! my new Linksys WAP/Router has a DHCP lease!

Woohoo! Finally, after 2 weeks short of one year since I first moved to California, I have broadband access.

A Matter Of Trust

Adam Curry: A Matter Of Trust

This is a really good piece. The quote below (without quoting the whole piece which I obviously will not do) doesn't do it justice, but I think it's powerful and it sums thinsgs up well.

I should say I have been trusting Adam Curry more as time goes on.

RE: Brent on Script Meridian

On the Script Meridian community list, Brent discusses his future.

Way to go Brent!

Brent

Holy fark! Brent Simmons, the consumate good guy, is leaving UserLand.

He says he'll still be in the community, developing software for Frontier and Radio. Not only am I happy that he'll still be "near" (virtually), but I'm happy to see him doing what he does down his own path. That's exciting and I'm excited for him.

Congrats Brent!