Category Archives: connectivityOne of the joys of moving into a new house in a new area is that you have to change ISPs–sometimes. At my house in Port Orchard, I actually had 3: Qwest DSL, Cable Internet from Wave Broadband, and a T1 from Covad. Unfortunately, when I moved to Gig Harbor, I couldn’t take the […]
You may not have noticed since I had a number of blog posts pre-written for your reading pleasure, but I’ve been only loosely connected to the Internet since about Friday. We took possession on, and have moved into a new place in Gig Harbor, WA. This has been disruptive in more ways than one.
What little […]
Here I am at my new house in Gig Harbor without broadband. Hey, I just took possession yesterday. Took three tries to get Comcrap able to accept my order for cable/High Speed Internet–that will be another post for another day. Install for that on Monday. My landline phone service with DSL won’t be set up […]
In preparation for my move, I canceled my business land line at home. I don’t really use it that much anyway, so there’s no huge loss there. This line also had my DSL on it, which means I now only have two hardwired Internet connections at home: Cable and my Covad T-1.
To be honest, I’m […]
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to deal with Covad support this soon, but stuff happens.
Earlier this evening, I had switched my MacBook over to the Covad T1. I hadn’t noticed any problems with it earlier in the evening, though when I got back to the computer after having completed the evening’s family activities, I […]
I am putting my Covad T1 through it’s paces right now. I decided that the best way to experience the difference is to live it, so I have taken my Mac and plonked it behind a Linksys router connected to the Covad T1 I got as part of the Covad Blogger Relations program.
I wanted to […]
The guy from Covad came up this morning and hooked up my T1. He was very surprised, and very relieved, that he did not have to run a single wire up the side of my house. I had enough pairs running between the demarc and the patch panel inside the house. After some playing around […]
As I wrote previously, I am part of Covad’s Blogger Relations program and am getting a T1 installed at my house. A few weeks ago, the circuit was installed by Qwest. A new telephone box is now attached to the backside of my house, waiting for the Covad folks to come hook it up. A […]
When I pull up the GPS on the Nokia N95 while I am at home, I am constantly reminded of what irritates me about GPS and most all maps for that matter: They are never up to date enough. My first experience with GPS was when we were visiting my wife’s friends, who lived in […]
I am in Covad’s Blogger Relations program. As part of that process, I get to have a T1 at my house installed and managed by them. And yes, I have to write about it. Today is where the rubber starts meeting the road.
Today, I got my phone call from Covad telling me that the Qwest […]
If you’re wondering what those of us use Twitter actually think… have a look at the response Jeff Pulver got when he asked his “friends” the question. Mine is in there somewhere:
Twitter is how I deepen my connection with the blogosphere. Twitter is old time IRC on your mobile phone.
I’ve done a fair amount of cleaning today. Thrown out a bunch of stuff I wasn’t going to ever going to use again that had no value. Meanwhile, here’s some stuff of value from Google Reader:
Cisco buying WebEx: Linked to the official press release. Coverage in the blogosphere from Irwin Lazar, Om Malik, and Jon […]
More off the Google Reader. Funny, my starred list has gotten bigger…
The US a Third World Communications Country: I have to agree with Rich Tehrani. We do live in a third-world country when it comes to communications. That’s what happens when you have a very powerful oligopoly controlling the entire telecommunications space.
Verizon pwns Vonage: To […]
It’s really hard to describe exactly what Twitter is: part IM, part blogging, part social networking, part voyeur, part exhibition. 140 characters at a time. Why so limited? Because Twitter can operate entirely over SMS, though it also offers web access, IM access, RSS feeds, third-party applications like Twitterriffic or Twitteroo, and the possibility to […]
I love the blogosphere. It’s a conversation. Lately, it’s been interesting. Today, I am responding to Mike Puchol at Whisher on my FON vs Whisher posting:
Thanks for sharing your concerns about Whisher, but I believe your analysis is not accurate in some aspects. First, Whisher works on top of FON, that means, you can share […]
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