Spend the 10 minutes and 24 seconds it takes to watch this video for an excellent overview of what the issues are surrounding Net Neutrality. (Thanks to Paul Stamatiou for the link to the video.)
Back in May of last year I decided to relinquish the email account I’d been maintaining for more than 10 years and to rely solely on Gmail as my email server of choice. That choice saved me $21.95 per month that I was foolishly spending with an ISP just to keep that email address [...]
As I indicated I was going to do, I didn’t turn on my computer at all on Saturday the 24th, and by so doing I observed Shutdown Day 2007. In general, I’d have to say that the day was very pleasant, quite productive and surprisingly easy to do. Some of you who commented [...]
Just a quick post near midnight on the 23rd to say, I’ll see you on the other side of Shutdown Day 2007. Be back on the 25th. Have fun while I’m away.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
My blog has always been just a place for me to test whether I could put things on the Internet and a way for me to comment on things I find interesting as I surf and experiment with them. Although I’ve been blogging now for about 5 years, I’ve never added advertising to this [...]
Today at 9:30 AM I turned off the computer with the intent of leaving it off for two hours. Actually, however, I left it off for 2 and a half hours. It wasn’t so bad. I didn’t get the shakes or suffer severe anxiety. I’m sure that I’ll be able to [...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I visited with my son Mike last night, as I always do on Tuesdays when he is working late, and he noted that when he read my post about Shutdown Day he thought to himself that I might had better try a few shorter, trial runs at this thing before going entirely cold turkey for [...]
Details of this online experiment can be found at this site. It’s simple actually. The challenge is to go for one day without turning on your computer, and it’s planned for March 24th. A blogger who calls herself Moonair suggest 7 ways to prepare for it in this post which is pretty [...]
I described the problem I experienced in finding a place to upload a large AVI file in this post the other day. This morning I’ve discovered another alternative.
My web hosting company, Dreamhost, has a converter that you can use to convert an AVI file to an FLV file which can then be [...]
Today is my pal Paul’s 83rd birthday. I want to wish him a Happy Birthday publicly here on my blog and to say I hope he has many more years of happiness there in his adopted home in Berlin.
Our friendship began when we were fellow members of an online writers’ group back in the [...]