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The newest Ale of the day comes from Shipyard Brewing in Portland, ME. The Export Ale is a smooth yet uninspired beverage that goes down smooth and leaves you with a very unsatisfied feeling. I actually downed the entire six pack in one evening and even at a rated 5.1% alcohol I felt hardly buzzed by the time I finished. Granted, I’m sure I could not go and drive at this point, which is worrisome. This drink is very deceptive and leaves you needing more, even after a few, which quite easily could lead to someone getting much more intoxicated than you think, and next thing you know you have ended up in jail. I’ll have to give some of their other beers a try as it seems this one just doesn’t fit my style, but they specialize in Ales so I would hope at least one of their products would tweak my palette.

So I’ve working on troubleshooting a Frontpage error while publishing a site for a customer and have pretty much come to the conclusion that she is having issues with the way the Frontpage Extensions are configured on the host. My biggest issue with all this is that she is pretty much trying to run native MS stuff on an LAMP server. So without having any real way of testing it I had to go visit my friends at 1&1 and buy a beginner MS hosting package for $3 a month. I have no intentions of keeping it either, use it for the night and then cancel the package. I’ll even let 1&1 keep the full payment for the six months since that is what the customer is paying for on the test. Of course this is why MS hosting sucks, I would already have all my information if this was a Linux pacakge, but no, this is a stupid MS package so I have to wait. BLAH.

Well, my Comcast connection to the interweb is gone all to hell again. This time much worse than before. Every 10-15 minutes my connection completely drops to nothing and stays off for anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour plus. Call and talked to Shawn at Comcast (who I must say was much better than the last jackass I talked too) saw that my connection was completely down, and that I had called about issues in the past, and said without any prompting that he can have someone out on Monday! It’s always nice to have someone recognize that something is wrong and be willing to do something about it. Too bad I now have to sit at home from 12:30 to 4:30 and hope the trained monkey shows up. Oh, I’m sorry did I say that out loud?

New beer of the day today, this time being from a local Baltimore brewery, Clipper City Brewing. Got their Pale Ale from the store across the street and I have to say I am pleased with my purchase. It’s a quite good budget Ale, with a price of only $6.50, and worth every penny. Granted it is not as good as some previous beers of the day, but it is quite good and could be worth a revisit now and again or possibly lead to trying their Gold Ale which was a Bronze Medal Winner at the 2000 Great American Beer Festival. The Pale Ale is quite nice, and has almost no aftertaste. I’d rate the smoothness at about an 8, while overall flavor ranks in at a 6.5 maybe 7. Maybe it’s just me, but I really can’t get any distinctive flavor out of the beer, hence the rather low flavor rating. This seems like it would be a good Sunday football beer or some other sports event drink. If you are ever in Baltimore and want to try out some local stuff, give the Clipper City brand a chance, it just might surprise you.

Well I have officially migrated myself over to Wordpress 2.0. Not bad so far, although I did have an issue with my index.php file. Can’t remember if I had this problem in the past before, but it seems that the index file is hardcoded to believe that the file exists in the ./wordpress/ directory. For someone who has their index file outside that directory it requires a bit of tweaking but nothing major, all I had to do was change line 4 to read:

require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

And then everything was copacetic again. Also, I turned off the “require users to be registered and logged in” to comment as there is a new comment spam tool that is supposed to work really well. I’ll give it a try and see how much spam I have to get rid of and be the judge at a later point. In the mean time, upgrade your blogs and get posting.