Blessed by the Potato

My connection to Rogers went dead in the middle of the night last night, and when it came back up I had a new IP. That might cause a few minor headaches for readers of the site (hopefully no one noticed — traffic has been really light lately so I don’t really know if anyone is reading this anymore). My new IP is in the 99.* range, which is a new range of IPs opened to Rogers in the last few months. Reports are that they’ve been a bit of a hassle — most of the rest of the internet doesn’t know that they belong to Rogers, so sites that say, for example: “welcome, visitor from Canada” don’t quite know what to make of you. Likewise, many routing tables aren’t optimized for that block of IPs yet, so reports have been that it was a slow IP range to have (by now, I guess those problems must have been fixed since I haven’t noticed any problems… yet). Also as a heads up, my IP tends to change fairly rapidly in bursts and then settle down for a few months, so there might be more spontaneous changes in the days to come.