The discussion on Digital-Eve Seattle this week (and other lists I'm on) has been the @home fiasco. I've modified by initial view that AT&T was the heavy -- it sounds like Excite was equally headstrong.

Perhaps this mess will lead to opening other ISPs to the cable delivery method -- but I'm not holding my breath.

At least AT&T's web site now has a link to a 1 December press release on its broadband page -- it's entitled "recent news" and as of this writing the release is 1 December. Of course, that release is NOT accessible from the "top" News Releases page.

The big news this weekend is the disruption to many of my friends caused by the AT&T/Excite snafu. I call it a snafu because I firmly believe that AT&T brought much of this on themselves. Why did they not create a seamless fallback position? In Seattle, the AT&T spokesman said "1-10 days" to restore service on Saturday; in the Sunday paper, the spokesma said "5 days" to restore service.

And yet, the AT&T web site has broadband info just as though nothing had happened. Incredible. And why isn't that false advertising?

Testing .... one, two three ....
This is a test of the web blog -- so far, the process has been painless. I was able to use my favorite login name ... then blogger.com walked me through the process of setting up the account. The blogger will automatically FTP to my website. Things I need to know - how to change the title and, probably, colors.

Turns out this is easy, easy, easy - just edit the template. Write your own CSS. To change the name (or other settings) ... just edit "settings" ... this application has a great interface.