Posts Tagged ‘internets’

The Worth of a Guarantee (a sad but true story)

Internet problems. Not again. Not after everything I went through before, I thought.
The internet was down, all right. The tubes to my house must have been clogged. I had no choice, I had to call customer service.
I hate calling customer service.
I told the robot on the other end what the skinny [...]

We now resume our regularly scheduled programming

Things have been pretty busy at Casa de Rage, lately, so I apologize for the dearth of posts. A great many things have happened over the past several weeks, and I look forward to telling you all about them. For now, here is a short summary of things that happened to me while [...]

Good times on the Web

I’ve gushed before about my web browser preferences, but these are exciting times for web surfers. Since the world-wide-web came into existence, web browsers have been like Sith – there are only two…two that count, anyway. And just like Sith, they may play nice while secretly desiring to destroy the other and rule [...]

Just one little problem

The search for an excellent hotel room is a hard one for the weary road-warrior.  I thought I had found one, too.  Clean, modern, well decorated.  None of that cheesy grandma furniture.  32″ LCD HDTV…although everything is stretch-o-vision, I can tolerate that…for one night, anyway.  Large work desk, comfy chair…twenty foot ceiling for crying out [...]

Na-na-na na, na-na-na na, hey heyyyyy, goodbye cable modem

I’ve mentioned before the issues I was having with my cable internet service. Well, now that I’m no longer an unemployed guy with too much free time, and I’m now officially a telecommuter (there are surprising similarities, except now I’m paid, so that’s nice), my internet connection is very important. And my Time [...]

My Road Trip with Dash

I’ve had my Dash Express GPS for a few weeks now, but I haven’t had the chance to really put it through its paces until last week, went I went down to Houston on business (not “business”). The Dash is unique in that it’s a GPS device with a built in GPRS internet connection [...]

How old is this modem, anyway?

I’ve already chronicled my recent cable internet problems, but some good did come out of the whole situation. I learned that Motorola SurfBoard cable modems have a diagnostic page built in that you can access by visiting http://192.168.100.1 – it even works when your computer is behind a router! If you’re experiencing problems [...]