alexpgp | Here and there...

I sent my Sansa e260 in for warranty service and it has arrived, as planned, via UPS Express Saver (which sounds better than "three day service," which is what it is), although unless I miss my guess, plain old ground service would have done the trick equally well between here and North Carolina.

A Priority Mail sent on Wednesday left Bethpage, here on the Island, at around 11:30 pm and arrived at the desination post office in Oregon at about 11:30 pm the next day, which I thought was pretty cool (and adds one more data point to my theory regarding postage "embedded" in labels).

My intenet connection is... bahaving erratically. Google Mail comes up half the time with a message suggesting I use their basic HTML view since the connection is slow, and Netvibes is utterly useless. Killing my firewall doesn't help much, and one site I visited to test my connection yielded no results at all.

On the other hand, command-line pings are as fast as ever.

My "System Idle Processes" hovers above 90, Firefox hasn't bloated itself in RAM, so I'm wondering what else there is to check before I turn attention outward, to the other side of the router?

Ideas currently on the back burner:

the purpose of education
Nothing you learn in school is supposed to be "useful" in the sense most people understand that word (as in "I'll never use algebra").
the power of very small increments
What the Grand Canyon has to do with financial security and learning a foreign language.

Cheers...