This morning I woke up with my left eye half-swelled shut due to allergies. Most allergy pills fall into one of two categories for me: those that relieve the symptoms by knocking me unconscious for the next several hours, and those that are roughly as effective as sugar pills. Chlor-Trimeton belongs in the former category, and Claritin, one of those new wonder drugs, falls into the latter category. I'm sure that Claritin works wonders for some people, but for me it's useless.
I also discovered this morning that this web site was down. Well, mostly down -- it could load the home page, but nothing else. After several hours, the problem was fixed. The service provider says it was caused by a 'buggy automatic update'. Hopefully these updates will be either less buggy or less automatic (and more tested) in the future.
This evening I received a notification that as of 4/30, AmexMail is shutting down their usa.net email service. Since 98% of what I get on that account now is spam, I somehow doubt that I'll really miss it. Still, it's another milestone in the passing of the free Internet services.
I watched another episode of Enterprise tonight. At least it's not falling into the trap that Star Trek: The Next Generation did of rehashing old Star Trek plot lines during most of the first season. Unfortunately, the show isn't actually interesting yet. The episode I saw tonight, "Acquisition", was just kind of goofy. Not terrible, but not actually good, either. It wasn't until its third season that ST: TNG started to be good, so maybe it will take time for Enterprise as well. Maybe they'll eventually lose the awful theme song, too.
Stupid news item for today: 'Corpse' Turns Out to Be Sex Doll
Posted by Mike at March 28, 2002 10:46 PM