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- ad: Exclusive runway and behind the scene footage from NY fashion week. Get some great styling ideas, check it out http://is.gd/4Blj4 #
- Working another weekend shift to cover. Going to have worked 18 of the next 24 hours. Go me! #
- ad: OMG Day 2 #NTFW, totally hot. Check out this exclusive runway and behind the scene video http://is.gd/4BDMb #
- Watching Dexter Season 1 on my Netflix to catch back up #
- hour 2.5 of this 12 hour marathon shift # (more…)
- What happened to cooling fall temps? Its hot again today! #
- And because Im saving the environment by not running the A/C, that means its 83 in my apartment. Uggh. #
- All 4 cores of my CPU have been at 100% load all night and temps havent gone over 60C. Compare this to when at idle I was running 64C… #
- I think my new cooler is working. #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Tantric – Hey Now
♫Autovein – Save Me
♫Adema – Do You Hear Me
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - New Twitterpic? I think it just might be #
- rt @terraamb when morons wash cars: http://bit.ly/gIi5m -> The brain power of these two is just astounding. #
- The timezone on my computer randomly changed to pacific time. Hello West Coast #
- Its hot and I am having a cuppa tea. I dunno, I just felt a strong desire for Earl Grey #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Tantric – Hey Now
♫Autovein – Save Me
♫Adema – Do You Hear Me
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - The soda machine is out of all but Diet Coke. #fml #
- RT @adamostrow: President Obama Calls Kanye West a “Jackass” – http:// bit.ly/Um2DK … for once, we're on the same page #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Manmade God – Safe Passage
♫Black Stone Cherry – Tired Of The Rain
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - RT @jeffswarensCompromise HC bill "only" costs 880 BILLION. Its still nearly a trilllion bucks. Not letting the govt run HC costs 0 #
- I'm not afraid to admit it. I backed up my Twitter account! You should backup yours here: http://backupmytweets.com/ #
- Calling Kanye West a jackass will never get old. http://imgur.com/h9Guq.png #
- These 8 hours shifts just keep getting longer and longer. #
- Use Coupon code "envelope" for 50% off all envelope orders http://spon.in/p2 1,000 for $59! #
- When asked what I have to say for myself, all I can say is "STEVE HOLT!" #
- Michael Hogan on this week's Warehouse 13. Its good to see him with both eyes after BSG #
- Eating some awful veggie beef soup from Campbells. This "Healthy Harvest" mess tastes like crap. #
- This eating healthier thing is killing me. Dammit I want pizza. #
- And to top it all off I'm drinking ice water. I would kill a man for a Dr. Pepper right now. #
- 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women #
- Uggh…awake before noon…this is bullshit #
- In regards to my previous tweet: I work nights, so it is normal for me to sleep past noon. My sleeping schedule is far removed from yours. #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Breaking Benjamin – Evil Angel
♫Three Days Grace – Gone Forever
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - Can you pass the US Naturalization test? http://bit.ly/Xy2m1 Take it a few times to get a better sampling of questions. I got 50/50. #
- Today is Constitution Day http://bit.ly/udXJF. 222 years ago today, the US Constitution was signed. #
- I wonder how the original 39 would react to the mess we're in today. #
- #backintheday 39 men signing a piece of paper changed the world. http://bit.ly/udXJF #
- !!AD!!: YouTube's hottest new show – http://is.gd/3ocXY is to online video what Siskel & Ebert were to the movies #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Lacuna Coil – Purify
♫Sirenia – The Other Side
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - Bills CB McKelvin’s front lawn vandalized – http://bit.ly/PIkxN – Come on Bills fans, we're classier then this. #
- Whats up with twitter images being messed up? Seems a lot of avatars are missing (mine included) and my background has changed. #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Dylan in the Movies – Give It Up
♫Tommy Lee – Tryin to be me
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - RT @Syfy: In honor of the Eureka finale tonight at 9pm, I'm giving away Eureka T-shirts to 3 random people who RT this note by 10pm PT #
- 5:35 on Friday and there is NOTHING going on. And to top it off I feel tired and achy. Fun day! #
- My Recent Tracks:♫Rage Against the Machine – Bombtrack
♫System of a Down – Sugar
♫See it @http://bit.ly/KW2sL # - RT @modmyi 500k MemberMadness Contest – Win a MacBook Pro/iPhone 3G[S]! Sponsored by FreshBooks.com/MiniBooks.app & NegriElectronics.com. #
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Fiber for all – A cause I can get behind
0 Comments | Posted by andrew in Nerd Stuff, Publicity
So, a contest has as an entry that one should write a blog post about fiber technology. Me being a total smartass, my first draft of this post involved yarn..but I decided to rewrite it with a serious tone.
What does fiber mean to me?
It means independence. I am currently stuck with two choices for highspeed connection: Verizon DSL and Comcast Cable. I chose cable because after having DSL for 8 years and desperately wanting for more..I could finally have it. Wrong choice.
My Comast service sucks. I get no where near the advertised bandwidth, my connection is total crap and drops out all the time, and I am constantly fighting against timeouts and DNS issues because of Comcast’s crappy network. Fiber would free me of all of the hassle and let me surf the tubes of the internet (or dump trucks if that is the metaphor you prefer) without having to fight.
I see the Verizon trucks in my area, advertising FiOS..but not for my apartments yet. I beg of you…bring it to ME! I’ll be your first subscriber. To Comacst: YOU SUCK!
More to the point, fiber technology to the home will finally help accelerate the US onto the world stage of broadband penetration. Japan is already at what, 50% fiber penetration? I have friends in Korea who are paying half of what I do for a 20mbps connection and they have “the slow internet”. It is time for the good old United States to catch up and start using some of that dark fiber across the country.
Faster internet connections foster creativity, help build new friendships, and expose the viewer to a whole range of information sources. We don’t even have cable at my house, we get our news/entertainment via the web from sources like Digg (for news) and Hulu and Youtube (entertainment). Not to mention faster connections allow wonderful technologies like VoIP to flourish. There was a time in my life where I couldn’t have lived without my Skype phone.
To sum it all up: Fiber is good for you, its good for me, its good for America. So on today, Labor Day in the US, salute those who are bringing us fiber and encourage them to labor harder at getting it to my apartment!
Fiber is also good for making yarn and helping keep your digestion regular. (I can’t believe I made it the entire post without making that joke!).
