For nearly two years now I’ve been a Netflix member, during that time I’ve only had one really bad experience with an otherwise flawless company. My problem was a DVD that arrived in two pieces, mailed it back and got another one in two pieces, mailed that one back and the third one showed up [...]
04.20Cable is dead to me!
This is a guest post by Keith Lemery, a professional chef, network administrator, husband and father. It was written to compliment and follow up the complete list of of websites to stream full tv shows and movies from.
Several months ago my wife and I decided to cancel our Time Warner cable television service. We [...]
OK maybe it is and maybe it isn’t, but two weeks ago I had really fast internet installed. The background is, when I bought my home, the only negative aspect besides not having a garage was the lack of true high-speed internet. I’ve been suffering for more than two years with one-way cable. For those [...]
Yippee yay, it’s earth day!
Earth day was created in 1970 as a global environmental awareness initiative. It is now observed in 175 countries and supported by progressive action organizations such as the Sierra Club, Greenpeace and the Earth Day Network. (Thank you Wikipedia.)
Some great, green + fun websites for earth day and beyond:
Buy local foods, [...]
All over the internet today and even my the front page of the business section of my local paper are articles about Starbucks ditching long-time internet supplier T-Mobile and joining with AT&T to offer free Wi-Fi.
Starbucks plans to offer the new AT&T service initially at 7,000 Starbucks locations in the U.S. It’s available to Starbucks [...]
I just logged into MySpace today to, well to check MySpace out and saw something kind of unusual an Amber Alert. Back in January I told you that MySpace was going to add Amber Alerts, Right above where it says Hello, Mike Panic (once you are logged in, above your default photo on the [...]
As of about 10:50am EST, Google’s web based email Gmail is dead is not responding. What makes it worse is that Google Groups are giving a 500 Internal Server Error when trying to view them. It took more than 10 minutes to get my email to load properly, trying to send a message [...]
AIM, also known as AOL Instant messenger, is still my instant message software of choice; I’ve been using it for what seems like forever and have several hundred contacts in it. Google’s Gmail has a chat feature built in, no need to download software, so this works in a pinch, but only if the [...]
Radiohead, one of the world’s most popular and critically acclaimed groups, finished their contract with EMI with their 6th release, “Hail to the Thief”, in 2003. The band has just announced that their 7th recording “In rainbows” will be available for download only from their website inrainbows.com on October 10th, for any price you choose, [...]
In my daily job of network administration and IT hell, I have to report a lot of errors to outside vendors for web-based products. Usually this will include a screenshot of some sort to visually show them what I am talking about. Up until a few weeks ago, this usually meant hitting the [...]