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Internet

Comcast adding caps

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. According to DSLReports, Comcast is instituting a cap on its broadband customers. The cap will be 250GB a month, with one “freebie” month, where you can go over this amount without repercussion. As caps go, this is one of the more reasonable. However, I expect to see other broadband companies following […]

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Technology Web

How to Install IE8 beta 2: First, find chicken to sacrifice, wait till midnight

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have Windows XP SP3 installed on my Dell I was therefore more than a little taken back about the instructions to follow to install IE8 beta 2: Uninstall Windows XP SP3 Uninstall IE8 Beta1 Re- install Windows XP SP3 Install IE8 Beta2 If you don’t follow this path, you’ll have […]

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Weather

Fill your tanks now

Fill your gas tanks now, because Gustav is coming to town. According to Dr. Jeff Masters at Wunderground, Haiti is going to get hammered, and no matter what computer model wins out in the end, the oil and gas production in the Gulf Coast is going to get disrupted. The especially worrisome part of Gustav is […]

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Political

Upstaged by a hurricane

I’m not going to write much about politics. I know how I’m going to vote and if you live in the States, it’s unlikely I’ll change your mind about how you’ll vote. I will say, just once, that I was also a Hilary Clinton supporter; one who has gladly switched my vote to Obama, because […]

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Technology

The Banana Test

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From Chip’s Quips a test to see your programming language preference: Here’s a quick and easy test to determine what programming language best suits your personality. There’s a very tall palm tree, and four animals happen to pass by: a chimpanzee, a lion, a giraffe, and a squirrel. They decide to have […]