At the turn of the century I switched from a “dial-up” modem to DSL. Zowie! It was like the orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally. Fast forward two decades, and not so much. My DSL craps out pretty much every day, requiring the box to be unplugged for a minute and reignited. At other times, the connection slows to a crawl. Recently the attempt to access a 215MB PDF, which required fewer than thirty seconds on my wife’s cable link (this is, for tax purposes, a dedicated business connection), took twenty minutes on DSL.

I think I’m going to tell AT&T to go fuck itself. Of course, I’m going to have to go into San Francisco to do this, because the online barriers are well-neigh insuperable.

cordially,