can anybody suggest a good moving service? i had previously thought that i would merely rent a uhaul and drive it out to chicago come september, but that option is looking less attractive (and more expensive) than i thought.

i'm constantly reading stories about people who get screwed over by moving companies, so any personal experience you've had would be good to hear. grazie!

Due to comment spam, the following words will now prevent your comment from showing up: poker, casino, rape, incest.

I'm sure you're all deeply disappointed. When this proves to be a difficult, I suggest using "gambling place" or "card game". Or, uh, reconsidering the thought you wanted to share.

The geekery has been intense around here the last couple of days. First, I'm hustling to finish up an overambitious GreaseMonkey project. It was spawned by the ad-killing efforts mentioned here (incidentally, if the project hadn't changed direction, Kanishka's Simpsons reference would have totally won the naming competition). But more on that later. In a few days to a week I should have a script/site that I'm hoping some of you will help me test before it's unleashed on the world.

Second, my external hard drive finally arrived in the mail, allowing me to backup and reformat our Linux machine. It had been limping along -- I'm no Linux guru, and the machine had been built out as a MythTV box. When we got a real Tivo I turned off as much of the MythTV detritus as I could find, but it still had problems working as the MP3 jukebox I wanted. So, after making some backups and downloading Fedora Core 4, I wiped the machine.