DSL woes...

Ok, so it's in. It works. Technically. I can access many websites, I can download some of my non-brown email accounts. I can even use AOL Instant Messenger. But I can't access a whole plethora of necessary sites: brown.edu, columbia.edu, mlb.com, washingtonpost.com, wired.com. It's a crapshoot to find out what sites are going to work and which ones are not. Notably, none of the popular image hosting sites work at all (ofoto, funtigo, yahoo!photos, msn photos, etc.) which is just totally maddening. Nobody out there in digital land has seen any pictures of me climbing mountains, negotiating with richshawwallas, or playing Trivial Pursuit. I've got to get this sorted out.

Sidenote: The title "-walla" literally means "one associated with [blank]." It's used off to mean, basically, "one who sells [blank]." But you can use it all over the place. I created the term DSLwalla because it sounded funny and I think the guy liked it. You could argue, and people have, that last October Lenehan and I were "whiskeywallas," or, perhaps more truly accurate, "Soxwallas." Anyway, I gather the use of this term has generated quite a bit of confusion and I thought I'd set it straight. Hope that was helpful.