From the monthly archives:

December 2008

How many IM programs do you run?

by Rob on December 25, 2008

We’ve all heard of subscription creep, or at least experienced it. $50 a month for internet, $35 for the phone, way too much for cable, a few magazine subscriptions, the list goes on and on. But what really got me the other day was IM creep. I was talking to a friend in Iraq via [...]

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No Free Lunch, RIAA

by Rob on December 22, 2008

Although I left the ISP world about six months ago, I’ve kept a casual eye on the industry. Especially interesting to me has been the continued threat of the RIAA against file sharers in the USA. When working for Transact in Bermuda, I had the dubious honour of receiving “this user has been nasty, go [...]

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Oh Yeah…. the Blog

by Rob on December 10, 2008

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted – sounds about par for the course. There are few things (online) as sad as a neglected blog. Don’t worry, kiddos, I won’t go getting all emo on y’all now. Did I use that term correctly? I’m still trying to figure out what Emo means. Is Nine [...]

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