Although I've done practically no work today, this will be the fifth journal of the day so at least I'm catching up on that front. First thing is that I did win my last fantasy football game. It was a close one though. After Sunday I had 109 points and my opponent had 107 points, based on my defensive strategy he had an adjusted 104 points. Problem was going into Monday he had one player who hadn't played while all mine had played. So I had to hope that his one defensive player scored 4 points or less (I'm pretty sure he had the tie-breaker). Surprisingly his player didn't play so I won my 10th fantasy game, keeping pace with the two leading teams. Next week I play the number 2 team which I have to beat to have a good chance at winning the championship.

In this game, if you score 90 points you should win 2/3ths of your games. That's not quite enough to win a championship, but close. It's the 2 or 3 close games each season that win or lose championships, assuming you have a fairly good team. Then it's up to having chosen the right players to play and the right defensive strategy. I'm lucky in having won two games by less than five points. My closest loss I think was a 10 point deficit. This week I had a really good output from my three running backs, who scored like 60+ points by themselves. Good thing too since my quaterback and kicker had off days...

The other thing I've gotten thrown at me is that I'm taking over the Tartan Terror's web site. He has a very good Hudson Leick picture/movie/sound site and some sort of Alicia Silverstone site. Tartan lost interest in the sites and wanted someone else to maintain them and I agreed to do it until Tartan finds the will to return. The site is hosted by SimpleNet, which was bought out by Yahoo! which is not necessarily a good thing. Yahoo! does not have permissive terms of service and they want everyone to upgrade their accounts to Yahoo! standards which will cost $30 a month (he has a large site). Right now it costs $10 a month.

So the natural alternative is to move his stuff to Jennifer and host it there. Space I have plenty off, bandwidth I'm not sure about. Even though I have an Enhanced DSL account (which allows me to run web sites), it's still only 128kb upload speeds. Looking at a statistics report, Tartan's site generates 1200 page hits a day and 102 MB transferred per day. That's 3 GB a month which may be more than PacBell will allow me to transfer. And that doesn't count the movies which were moved to another site a while ago.

Still, my short term big concern is the small pipe I have. His pages are actually quite small, with 4kb index pictures, better than what I have. So the main pages will load fast enough. It's the actual pictures and files that will load slowly. I don't want to make the site too slow (especially with so many people going to it). But I want the site on my computers (I'd rather depend on my own equipment, and it's more fun that way). One option is to upgrade to a 384kb upstream account (though I think Dave mentioned that we were too far from the Central Office) which would be another $110 a month, a bit much even for me. I could also just leave it the way it is, but where's the fun in that?

For now, I guess I'll move everything over, make the main SimpleNet page redirect to my pages, then see what happens. I wish NetPresenz reported bytes transferred. Can't wait for Mac OS X and an Apache server...

Last thought. I started using MacSSH as my terminal program. It's based on BetterTelnet so even though it's an alpha it's pretty stable. It's the only free client with SSH support that I can use (NiftyTelnet can't be used in the US or something like that). Easy to set up a certificate and log into CSUA. Pretty cool.