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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
Awakening this a.m. to the news that your editor's wife's iBook up in Iowa is "waking" from sleep completely frozen with purple lines across across the monitor seems par for the course these days. Quark has botched its XPress updates again, .Mac mail works intermittently, our Remote Access cuts out every few minutes, and a bear knocked over the dumpster. We have to drive to Santa Fe this evening to speak to the Santa Fe Mac Users Group and there will probably be an avalanche in the canyon.
We heard Mercury was retrograde again, which might explain .Mac, haha. It's so strange to us that Apple's $99 per year service returns so many connection errors when we check the mail. Scores of them almost every day, mind you. The Quark XPress upgrade validation snafu (read about it here) doesn't surprise us at all, but our current Internet stutter-connection does.
Ever since moving out to our new location on the south side of town (Taos, NM), we've been trying modem script roulette. Our ISP has two access numbers, each using a different modem technology, and our ancient Global Village 56K modem seems to be able to work with either one of them, though none is perfect. Right now we can hook up consistently at 44K, but usually not without a long sequence of disconnects that come every minute or so until it "settles in" and things are quiet for a while. At other times there are no disconnects at all. The phone lines out here are probably funky -- most everything in northern New Mexico is -- but the inconsistency is maddening.
The bear, we can deal with. We like bears, even if this one did wreck a perfectly harmless plum tree last week and dumped a load of, um, what bears dump, right in the middle of our back "yard" path down to the acequia (irrigation ditch). The garbage all over the driveway wasn't fun to clean up, but we did.
Driving to Santa Fe through "the canyon," as the stretch of road that follows the Rio Grande south of Taos is called, is frequently adventurous due to the rocks that fall from the high steep cliff along the highway. Given the nature of the day so far, we'll be extra vigilant. New Mexico is by the way the only state where we have ever encountered a road sign that says "ROCK SLIDE IN PROGRESS." Believe it, it's true.
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