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• I bought a new PDA last week. Nothing fancy, I won’t be doing any wireless surfing or checking of email on it, it’s mostly just to keep me organised, with my contacts at my fingertips. I had one of these for years, and then last year I went back to paper just for the hell of it. And recently I’ve been overcome with the need for technological organisation once again so, having pulled out the old clunker and realised that it is now a juiceless hunk of plastic worthy of landfill, I bought the Zire and spent most of the weekend alternating between data entry and fond cradling.

• With the closing of The House just two and a half weeks away, Michael and I have been talking about what we need, by way of furniture. We need a lot. So over the past couple of weekends we’ve been to a few estate and consignment auctions and have had a moderate amount of success. It’s tough to resist the impulse to buy everything we need right away, especially at auction prices, but we figure we should probably live in the place before we buy anything more. So auction attendance is on hold for now and will resume shortly after June 12th. Perhaps on June 14th.

• Our agent dropped off the boxes she promised (part of the company’s good customer service is that we get free boxes for using one of their Buyer Consultants). She arrived on Friday night with thirty clean, strong, brown boxes. That should be just about enough for my books.

• It turns out that Feature Price (current e-j.com host, grrr) was purchased by Atlantic.net. It’s good to know what’s going on, but despite that knowledge, I am still powerless in my attempts to have my DNS changed. You see, when Feature Price registered my domain name for me last year, they listed themselves as the owner of the domain, the bastards. After a whole lot of back and forth and an email message to FP that bounced back ten days after sending it, I have finally learned who the registrant of my domain is and they have been wonderful to deal with (support emails that have been answered within the hour! What a novelty!). It sounds like Atlantic.net is trying to do the right thing by working with DotRegister to transfer domain ownership from Feature Price to the actual client. Still, I’ve learned my lesson with big, cheap hosting companies. Blake, from LISHost, has been tireless in helping me try to wrestle this thing to the ground so I’m more than happy to give him my money.