Maria started working out the plans for a personal project (excellent ideas, primary source, social research… can’t write about until it’s formally under way) so I registered the domain on Saturday morning and assembled the beginnings of a nice webpage for it. Today, after it propagated, it took all of two minutes to set up dns, another five to add the site to apache and fifteen minutes for me to read the FAQ and double check against Life with QMail before spending a little less than a minute- including sending test messages- setting up the virtualdomain for email. Good tools make the work go faster.

Got an anonymous email sent through the nycwireless.net node owner contact form the other day from someone in the neighborhood who was using my public wireless access point. I’ve received many messages along the lines of "How do I set up my laptop?", "How much do you charge?", "How can I do this myself?" and (cluelessly) "I’m in another borough ten miles away, how do I get access?" but this was the first thanking me. Cool.