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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?