I’m pondering today why every media outlet acknowledges that Barack Obama will win the Democratic nomination, yet every story buries that news in the fourth or fifth paragraph after lauding Hillary Clinton’s grit and endurance, and seems to celebrate every time she scores a win in a state that won’t make any difference to the eventual outcome.

Maybe we’re looking at a legal battle over the disqualified Michigan and Florida delegates?  Then let’s make that the story instead of  pretending that Clinton has any other chance.

From a CBC/AP story:

Despite last week’s resounding defeat to Clinton in the West Virginia primary, Obama holds a near-unassailable lead in delegates who will choose the party’s presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention in August in Denver.

If Obama is unassailable, who cares that he lost in a state that (like Kentucky) is unlikely to back a black candidate?  As one politician told me years ago, “We don’t worry about the people who will never vote for us – nothing we do will change their mind.  What we concentrate on are the people who we can swing our way, who we have a fighting chance of winning.”

Unbenownst to Primus I have moved to Vancouver from Hamilton. Not unsurprisingly my WIMAX modem is having difficulty establishing much less maintaining a solid connection.

Since then I have been been accessing the ‘net via:

• dial up
• DSL
• High speed cable Internet
• Lite cable Internet
• Vancouver Public Library wifi
• Other people’s unsecured wifi

How does WIMAX compare? Not very good.

Certainly it pales beside either cable or DSL. Latency disappears. That long lag that characterized Primus WIMAX is gone, and sites load quickly and without hesitation or stalling. For general surfing and e-mail even a good dial up connection feels more snappy than WIMAX did in Hamilton.

Downloads in general are faster and seem more reliable with DSL and cable. Web site backups and the like seem to happen with fewer timeouts, and large files are delivered quickly enough that even a 1 gig backup doesn’t seem too unreasonable.

As for the Primus WIMAX crew, I’ve heard nothing from them since February. No updates, no requests for feedback, no VOIP service.

I guess that my next step is to take the ZyXel modem and see of I can find WIMAX in Vancouver. As far as I can tell there’s nothing in Kelowna.

Who knows? This may be the end of the big WIMAX experiment. I don’t think that I’ll miss it.

OK, it’s been a cross country move, a move to new web hosts, job hunting, romance, dog walking, a lot of “where the hell did I pack that?” moments, and a gradual update of the WordPress software from 2.1 to 2.5.

Yes, I’ve been busy.

The move was from Hamilton, Ontario to (mostly) North Vancouver BC, with extended stops in Kelowna to visit family. The trip was four long days, with Ursula The Wonder Pup and I in a Chevy van packed to the roof with everything that it was sensible to move.

The move itself was financed by a great Craigslist selloff. Craigslist has also proved to be a pretty good way to get rides back and forth from the Coast.

And Vancouver? God it is beautiful. Mountains, ocean, sunshine, forests. Great libraries, unlike Kelowna, whose library is pretty sad. Nice building but not many books and unbelievably no wireless Internet and no DVDs!

And the food, oh lord the food. The restaurants, the markets, the flowers, the cooking that I’ve been doing.

And the romance, well, what can I say … that is at least half of the reason that I’m here.

So, now that I feel settled, it’s time to get back to writing, at least in this venue.