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January 20, 2009
January 9, 2008
Charter Communications Upgrade
I’ve been a Vonage user for about 4 years now. I’m on the $15 plan since I don’t really use the phone THAT much. Anyway, I got 2 letters today in the mail from Charter asking me to subscribe to their VOIP service. The damned thing is terribly over priced ($30), so no way. But I’m also tired of getting those letters, so I figured I’d give Charter a ring.
Ashley answered the phone immediately, and asked what I needed. I asked her to stop sending me those VOIP letters, and she took me off the direct mail list. YAY!
So far so good. Well, as soon as we were saying our sweet goodbyes, she stopped me, and said they were discontinuing the 3MB service I am on (honestly, I thought I was on 6MB, but whatev). They’re switching to a 5MB service, and would I like to switch for $1 more.
“Sure” I said.
She said she’d switch me, and oh and by the way, she’ll also drop $10 off my service for the next year.
Hmm…faster broadband, cheaper service, very efficient call if you asked me!
Woot!
Lazysphere is giving me a headache
I couldn’t agree more with Steve Rubel’s post on the Lazysphere. Lately I’m just not reading blogs anymore (vs skimming them), because they’re all redundant. I feel like I’ve seen everything so far. I’m playing around lately with AideRSS, and, though don’t like their mechanism for reading (they depend on other aggregators so they don’t get huge traffic I suppose), they have the right idea. Skim through the crap for me so I can get to the good stuff. It’s just hard to figure out what the good stuff is. I’m sure Ilya Grigorik has a few ideas about how to do it.
Only problem now is, according to Steve, I’m not sure I should be posting this as I’m just dittoing him. No biggie I suppose, you won’t be reading this anyway.
January 8, 2008
Now they tell me!
If it wasn’t enough that Blu-Ray is winning over all of the studios, now if you have a PS3, all you gotta to get get a Blu-Ray movie onto your PSP is stick in the disc, and attach your PSP and it’ll lap over the data. That’s just PHAT!
January 5, 2008
Why to Lose DRM Then?
It looks like the last of the big DRM players (Sony-BMG) is joining in with the rest of the kids and scrapping DRM. I really don’t think they’ve been won over to the freedom of DRM free music, but rather, the capitalism of DRM-free music. As with vinyl, 8-tracks, tapes, and CDs before, we now have a collection of DRM’d audio which is effectively the latest legacy audio format. Now, they’re going to get us to all buy all of our lovely music yet again!
Dammit, this is the last time! As far as I can tell anyway…until they figure out how to make analog quality digital music.
Bah, I’m not having any of it. Long live the subscription!
December 16, 2007
Where’s my Google Reader API?
I spent a little time today playing with Google’s Ajax Feed API. Its fine and dandy for doing simple interfaces which don’t require the use of very many feeds. It also doesn’t require anything but Javascript.
However, towards the end of ‘05, there was speculation that a Google Reader API was going to be exposed in the same way they expose their Google Maps API. I’m working on a new aggregator in my spare time (or at least thinking about doing it), but I don’t wanna deal with all of the scalability issues with pulling down all those damned articles. I’ve done that before, and its a pain.
The API that exists now is undocumented and unsupported, I’m just wondering if they are going to get around to it. Its been two years, and I for one am ready for the real thing!
September 22, 2007
Nifty script
So, I was playing around on the file system today and thought ‘why can’t I get to where I’m going with just the actual directory name that I want?’. Well, turns out, I can…
Drop the following line in a file.
CNG=`find . -name $1 2> /dev/null` && cd $CNG
Now add these aliases:
alias scd=’cd && source ~/path/to/file’
alias rcd=’source ~/path/to/file’
Now, typing ’scd <directory>’ will change to that directory within your entire home directory. ‘rcd <directory>’ will do the same except relative to where you currently are. I’m sure there are a few niceties which can be added, like some way of combining the two, but so far, its been quite useful to me.
Be careful using this if you have symlinks to other directories on you machine! Have fun, and tell me if you have any cool additions to this useful script!
March 16, 2007
Unfortunate Domain Names
Just ran upon this one tonight: poologic.com. They even have it trade marked! Why is it people can’t see hilarity of their domains?
March 5, 2007
Why is it…
That over the past few weeks most everyone at the office has become ill enough to take a few days of R&R, and yet…I get sick over the weekend, spend it entirely in bed, and now I’m back at work on Monday?
Ah well, at least I caught up on Heroes…
February 28, 2007
Crazy Day
Going to get a ultrasound done today. Its the first for #2. We’re probably going to find out the exact birthday today as well. That’s just crazy. I’m excited and worried at the same time. I can’t say I’m 100% ready by now…but I guess that’s why they give us 10 months.
