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Upgrade Time - Front Loader washer and dryer…

Friday, February 27th, 2009

Well folks… the old washer and dryer are getting long in the tooth.  Whirlpool?  LG?  Electrolux? Sears? Who knows anything about these and so forth…

We have a daily load with the two kids, plus you get the random smelly tennis and golf clothes in there from both me and the wife.  Kids have poo stained clothes now and then, plus their usual applesauce covered overalls, onesies, etc…

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facebook will take over the web

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

so, gradually, what little i did outside of facebook seems to be getting ignored or absorbed into facebook’s apps.  I’m sure i’m not the first guy to point this out.  Surely classmates/reunion/etc… are all going to suffer.  I think another one is linkedin.  As soon as facebook has a professional edge/area, out goes linkedin.  I guess time will prove me right or wrong, stay tuned and tune back in a couple of years…

Nanog Peering Survey Results - V2, Dominican Republic 2009

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Hello folks… I am posting the pdf raw version of the results from over 100 ISPs, etc… that answered questions to the survey i put out.  Basically we got a lot of networks from Europe.  That meant that some of the results when presented to the skeptical nanog audience was full of “i don’t believe Dtag was so far up there in traffic… etc…”  Well, that is because those skeptics now understand that the Internet is more than just their USA /Canadian isp traffic beliefs.  So welcome to the internet folks, it is worldwide ! ! !

Here’s the pdf file, i promise to do a better job on the interpretation of the results when i have time!  And thanks to Bryan Berg and Ben Kirkpatrick that helped a lot on it!  Peter.

Sprint EVDO card for the mac

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Folks, i’m on a evdo u727 card sitting in a suburb of philadelphia.   it works quite well, i am impressed.   Now, if you had to pay for it yourself, might not be worth it unless you are rich.

So if you travel to hotels, and airports, do the math:

call it $60/month for evdo

Call it $10 for a hotel or airport internet access each time/ per 24 hours…

Do the math, 6x equals you are a head with a evdo card and you have more reliable service, plus if you ever  needed to, you could use it in the car in a parking lot, while waiting for someone, etc…  Doctor’s office, you name it…   Go buy one!

Dominican Republic and Various things…

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Well folks, 8 days in the dominican republic and all i can conclude is:

  • Food sucks at resorts, but a good restaurant line in Santo Domingo
  • Roads suck - no doubt about that
  • Service sucks - yeah, especially at resorts…

Not a lot of praise going on, tell me i’m wrong…   Two locations, Santo Domingo and Punta Cana, but only a resort in Punta… Basically, you could die stepping off a curb, as there were massive holes in the roads.  Seems like a poor country and thus, that is what you get…  But other poor countries seem to have better infrastructure, but i guess it is the hurricanes that wipe out the place regularly…

Oh well, enough ranting… back to the meds

My new 15″ macbook pro

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Uh… nice…   was going to get the 13, but basically i need that 2 inches, did the amortization over 3 years and figured it was an extra 300/year, or say $6 week…   You get the idea…

Now… I need a wrist pad wrest, as it scratches AND scratches my watch and we don’t want that watch scratched further, as the old g4 powerbook ate some of that metal for some hot metal on metal love.

You get the idea.. .More later.. very exciting..