After being offline I'm back! It seems that my cable modem died a horrible death sometime yesterday. The Comcast guy came by this morning, plugged in a new one (even smaller than the last one), and everything was up and running in moments. I was a bit wary of that old cable modem anyways. It was a used one when they installed it and it died once before, though it came back to life that time. So, I'm back. I'll have more to post about later after I catch up on email.