News: happy new year, live from the future

Several weeks, two major holidays, and the complete replacement of our

household computer later, I'm finally back online. All is well. My

apologies to anyone whom I've fallen out of contact with in all the

hubbub and rapid change. My apologies, additionally, to anyone

anxiously long-awaiting my Fall Convention Report. The half-finished

report and fully-finished sidebar went down with the old computer's

hard drive, and I haven't had time to retype them.
We will, of course, be backing *everything* up from now on. New

computer has no floppy disk drive but we've found these nifty things

the size of keychains that hold the data equivalent of 176 floppies.

Dude. I'm saving, like, everything I write-- letters, grocery lists,

the whole nine. It will still take me so long to fill my new keychain

that the keychain I eventually buy to replace the full one will

probably hold *500* floppies, play MP3s, and interface wirelessly with

my digital watch. (I don't own a digital watch, mind you, but by *then*

they'll have these really cool wrist-top computers that make the Apple

IIe I had as a kid look like...well, like the digital watch I had as a

kid. )

Technology is not, however, perfect, as my new Firewall persists in

protecting me from my email and Livejournal accounts. Anyone know how

to teach it to trust a given password blank? As a wall it's great, but

it's kinda low on doors.

be well, everybody.