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 I, for one, welcome my new AT&T overlords …

Ahhh … that’s more like it! Tomorrow, it’s goodbye DirecPath. Sure I’ll miss DirecTV, but I’ll be a customer again when I’m in my house. I had a slight wiring problem that AT&T had to fix, but now I’m on the Net at a respectable speed. I ditched my Linksys WRTG54L for the 2Wire 2701 that came from AT&T. I was hesitant at first, but after I enabled WPA with a 64 character key, disabled on-board DHCP (my Linux DHCP server only hands out IP’s based on MAC’s), set an admin password, made the SSID unique, enabled MAC filtering, and allowed inbound SSH to my server I knew I’d be just fine.

This just in: I, for one, welcome my new Google overlords …

I love Sonoma Creative. They’re simply great and I really didn’t want to leave them as their Zimbra service is top-notch, but I have moved my email to Google Apps for Domains. The deciding factor for me is that the whole Microsoft / Yahoo! dance could jeopardize Zimbra’s future and now is as good a time as any to make a new start. GMail supporting IMAP made the prospect of going Google very tantalizing. I already loved GMail’s web interface, but their mobile support is also very good as I can receive my mail over IMAP on the BlackBerry, through the full-fledged client on the BlackBerry, and can even sync my GCalendar with my BlackBerry. Plus, I can still have a Zimbra experience by using the Zimbra Desktop with GMail. Add the Linux Checkgmail applet and the Better GMail2 Firefox extension to keep my sessions encrypted and I’m a happy camper.

It’s sad because it’s true

The Onion offers up two articles that hit me where I live: The knights who say “nerd”: 20 pop-cultural obsessions even geekier than Monty Python and Local Girlfriend Always Wants To Do Stuff.