Category: Grumbles
The Blog is Back.
It’s been gone for 9 months, thanks to an ill-fated career move that severely limited my freedom of speech. It sounded like a great idea, but turned out to be a nice waste of a year. I’m going on holidays just after Christmas, so I’ll have lots of time to update this blog with all [...]
How many IM programs do you run?
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 [...]
No Free Lunch, RIAA
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 [...]
Oh Yeah…. the Blog
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 [...]
How Multitasking can be bad.
Quick word – never upgrade WordPress while you’re writing a post. You’ll lose it. Guaranteed. Rob = Dumbass today.
Spring better @#%@ be in the air
I’m tempting fate today. I put the summer tires on. Of course, there was freezing rain on the way up to the stealership. This should be fun. Maybe I can find another homeless guy to dent up my car again in another vain attempt to rescue me from an icy fate. Maybe…. Let’s hope! I [...]