Posts from June 2000

A Literal DSL Connection

To find out how you can litererally connect with GTE DSL Service, click on the following information for a complete overview of DSL components, pricing and the steps to getting GTE DSL. I will not pay attention to the spelling error. I won’t. I’m not looking at it. What the hell do they mean by

The Rapid Systems Corporation

The Rapid Systems Corporation‘s DSL page notes that they have Free Virus Scanning and Intrusion Detection included Free! I think that it would be annoying if I had to pay for a Free (always capitalized!) service, don’t you? Does anyone in DSL-world believe in proof-reading? The site says that I can get a “dedicated IP

EarthLink DSL

Wow! This EarthLink page about DSL service says that they have FREE equipment, installation, and set-up! Then it says that the offer requires self-installation! So, if I install it myself, they’re not going to charge me to install it?! Huh? Join me now as I begin to follow TheBrad’s ill-fated path …

I like Mike. Mike’s a pretty decent guy. I’m even willing to overlook the fact that he has terrible taste in academic / athletic institutions. I don’t want to get involved in an inter-blog argument about this. I’ll just say that the absolute best college football game I’ve ever seen, full of amazing plays and even-more-amazing players, excellent momentum swings and heartbreaking tension, had a final score of 32-29 and not 52-20.

splash pages on websites

Man, I really hate “splash” pages at web sites. I’m there. I don’t need an ad telling me that I’m there. Just let me into the site dammit!

DSL Service

I’ve come to think of blogging as the new bookmarking. I almost never click in my Favorites menu these days. So pretty much nobody but me will want to go to this site. It’s the one for GTE DSL Services. As much as I admire TheBrad, I have to hope and pray that my experience

No matter what it may look like, I did not spend the night at home on the computer. At one point I washed the dishes. I am still recuperating from last night. Okay I lied. I only put the dishes in the dishwasher.

If I’ve never mentioned it before, now is a good time to say that I hate telemarketers.

5-Disc CD changer

In the CD player right now: Tom Petty, Wildflowers Alanis Morissette, MTV Unplugged Nirvana, bleach Foo Fighters, There Is Nothing Left to Lose Foo Fighters, The Colour and the Shape

Insert torrential downpour here.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.