I have a DVD+R/+RW drive that I can now do a complete backup of my main workstation partition, so I've upgraded Office using the 2003 beta 2 kit to use the new spam filter and improved UI changes in Outlook.
11:34:52 PM  

Doc Searls: "Seems my ISP is blocking outbound SMTP traffic to mail servers other than its own, which I don't use. New thing. I'm checking on it."

Computerworld article from October 2000, when Earthlink first started to block port 25 traffic except for their own SMTP servers. Most of the major ISPs seem to have the same policy.
11:26:32 PM