So I'm sitting here coding, and the cable modem looses block sync. Or effectively. It's like the headend just stopped talking to it anymore. No more DHCP lease, can't get a new one, and the modem can't sync even though there's enough activity to swamp a decent connection. Maybe that's it - enough people got hit with some virus that there's an effective DDOS against the system. Either way, I guess it's time to stop coding for the night, go to bed, and hope it's working in the morning. As for the coding I was doing, for some reason I decided that tonight would be a good night to write a discussion board. I basically have it together without the user management part (anonymous users only, although it keeps the namespace segmented for users later). After all the functionality is there maybe I'll consider aesthetics. As for what else happened today, I got to spend some time fixing the policies that were applied to a bunch of laptops that were supposedly leashed to the network, but really they're used off network so need the whole caching logins and profiles pieces and stuff like that. And JoeBuck decided to finally get his web site relating to koalas and "imminent puntification" started, so that's something to look forward to in the near future. If you can guess or remember the URL he was going to use, you can look at a funny temp page before he changes it. :) And comcast is still broken... Hopefully this will post sometime during the night and not have to wait until I get to work tomorrow...