Today's Cox Cable Internet Customer Service Scorecard:
Outbound Email Down for: 5.5 hours so far
Time to Navigate Phone Tree: 1:48
Talk to Live Person: No

Voice response took me to a set of internet prompts. When I selected email, the nice female voice said there was a problem with the email servers and that the should be back up "shortly". I wonder how times that recording has played in the last five and a half hours.

Back from a whirlwind trip to Indiana to see my sister and my parents for Thanksgiving. It was interesting to see how technology has become part of the "Great American Road Trip". Most of the minivans cruising by had a movie running in the back seat, and I saw lots of passengers using laptops. I'd rather look at the landscape( the rest of the family says Iowa is boooorrrrrinnnng) , but if you need to stay plugged in..... The annual family movie outing was to see Happy Feet, with Elijah Wood as the voice of a penguin that just doesn't fit in. It was cute. I won't be banging down the doors for the DVD.

The Novell mess continues to stay interesting, today Mark Shuttleworth, the driving force behind Ubuntu linux, issued a public invitation to OpenSuSE developers to check out Ubuntu's development process. It usually takes a project fork to inspire this kind of talent raid. Ubuntu is getting plenty of criticism on it's decision to include binary video and other drivers in it's next release, but they continue to attract me more than any other distro. The general direction of the Ubuntu project is to make something that works for a lot of people right after the install, and that's more important to them than the politics. That's why I'm doing work for Ubuntu.

Tikiwiki had a massive attack on their website over the holiday weekend. One of the lead devs restored the site, but one of the features is still broken. I'm got my login back into the docs site, and I now begin a massive push to keep up with the 1.10 developments while filling in the blanks on 1.9.7.