today is the Spring Equinox

Looks like it really happens at noon, but today is the Spring Equinox. Happy, happy Aries. What timing. DSL arrived, full service, yesterday morning. Unexpected, but hey, I’m not one to argue with progress. Been some wonderful Jupiter stuff going on around here, new machines, new phones, all kinds of legal stuff getting taking care of, and frankly, I wonder about this supposed down turn in the economy. Given that Mars is conjunct Pluto right now, sort of makes me wonder, but there’s been a certain press, like not quite enough time to get anything done but on the technical front. That earthlink.net DSL hookup works like a champion. The browsing wasn’t that much faster, but the upload times on the website — oh yes. No more watching the little progress bar. It just flies. I looked at some other examples, and not feeling like scripting up an entire splash movie, I just added to what’s already there. Sure it’s lame, but you know, I did it all myself, right in the back of a trailer in South Austin. I got to examining the DSL modem, and that got me thinking about the way technology progresses. I remember my first 1200 baud modem, then a super fast 2400 one, same size, nearly a foot long, and that gave way to smaller 14,400 which was just really super fast — throughput late at night was 2 or 3K [something]. Then came 28.8 — super fast. Each modem was in the $100-$200 price range. This recent install — the modem is about the same size as that old 14–4, about the same amount of heat output, about the same price, cheaper if you consider 90’s dollars compared to current dollars, but the speed? I was registering 20K [something]. Right — this is progress. Happy Aries.