After a series of upgrades, I found myself without sound on my laptop. I've always found ALSA to be a bit quirky, but this was getting annoying. After fiddling with various kernel options, I remembered I could actually google for the answer. I saw this forum post. In 20 seconds I had sound again. I don't know why those settings should matter, but apparently they do. So now I'm back to grooving to my mp3s while I code. Life is happy again. Just another reason I need to upgrade to a powerbook.

Well, it would appear that DNS freaked out on me last week. I got the issues (mostly) resolved this weekend, but it looks like I'm going to have to do something more permanent. I've been looking at hosting services the last few weeks trying to find one that fits all my needs and I think I've finally found one: http://www.eapps.com/. I'd looked at some that had almost everything I wanted but were missing one or two features I consider important (ssh/scp access, e.g.). This whole bundle covers all the bases. I'm going to take a deeper look today, but in all likelihood, I'll sign up today and this site will be up on the new host by the end of the week. Maybe then I won't disappear for days again. :(