I mentioned recently that the routing problem that had many complaining of slow access to this site had cleared up, which clearly they have for some (me included) if not all that were experiencing the problem (I believe most folks never experienced the problem in the first place). Since then, however, I've gotten a couple of odd "the site is still slow for me" emails, so I'd like to request anyone having what they believe to be an unusual problem accessing the site to send along a copy of a traceroute or something to help make a quick determination if there is some problem of which we're not aware, or (more likely) just a couple of folks having some of the problems typical of the Internet (by the way, it's not an indication of a problem once your traceroute hits a string of time outs at the end, that's just the firewall). Like I said, the site has been lightning fast for me for a week or more, but then again, I am in the same area of the country as the server (New York City) for the first time since 1996 when it was hosted on my local ISP, not that physical location always matters on the Internet.

Link of the Day: 2000 Uses for Peanut Butter, following yesterday's theme. Actually they list no less than 2,574 uses. Thanks gw.
Story of the Day: Sperm survey by mailshot (BBC News). "A major fertility survey being carried out by researchers in Edinburgh will see 1,000 Scots agreeing to send samples of their sperm through the post." Thanks Braindead.