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Hey Pittsburgh folks — what ISP do you use? Do you like it?

I’m currently a Telerama customer, and I’m getting kinda cranky about it. I think it’s time to switch to a more stable provider, but I’m not sure who to go with.

I’m looking for an ISP that’ll give me at least one static IP address and the ability to run a small server (web, mail, etc., etc.).

I’d also like one with off-hours service — while I can deal with the fact that Telerama charges more than Verizon for DSL, I really don’t like the fact that if my network melts down on a Sunday evening I’m basically screwed until Monday morning.

Any thoughts?

I’m in the middle of upgrading to WordPress 1.5, so if the site’s acting wonky, that’s probably why.

So far the upgrade isn’t so bad, though I kinda wish I hadn’t used so many plugins before.

Edit: Threaded comments, which I crave, aren’t back yet and I don’t feel like fiddling with them tonight. Maybe tomorrow while stuck waiting for endless compiles at work.

Why the hell don’t more weblog packages include comment threading by default anyway? I don’t get it.

Now that I’m settling into OS X pretty happily, about the only part of the Windows experience I think I miss is the megafabulous FeedDemon RSS reader.

The ‘newspaper’ combined feed view it has is super-cool, and I’d love to find something similar in OS X. NetNewsWire’s “Combined” view is sorta close, but I don’t love it and I dunno whether I want to drop $40 on another feed reader.

Anybody have a favorite OS X reader? Should I just give up and send in the $40 for NNW?

I should note that I’m not super-into web-based things like Bloglines.

Also, if there’s some other non-rss-reader utility I absolutely must have, I’d love to hear about it.

It’s so… shiny.

I’ll have to use it more before my opinion has settled, but so far I’m very very happy.

Things seem smoother and less broken than I’m used to, and the fact that my zsh setup just basically works with the version that’s installed by default (nevermind the fact that zsh is installed at all) pleases me.

The downside is that I’m going to need to learn a whole new set of tweaks and shortcuts and whatnot.

Also I desperately need to remap control to caps-lock.

More later, I imagine.