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The Geek Trifecta

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3 years ago
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Caution: nerdiness levels approaching critical

A recent trip to Blockbuster resulted in my obtaining the above pictured DVDs: Serenity, Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, and Battlestar Galactica: Razor.  If there were a Geiger-counter-like device that could detect levels of geektitude, the table where I took this photo would break the needle.

I’ve actually seen Serenity a few times before — even more than once when it was in theaters.  I am quite sad to admit, however, that I hadn’t seen Firefly, the TV show upon which it was based, at the time.  When the show originally aired on Fox, the More >

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

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3 years ago
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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 Warner connection started dropping, routinely, in the morning, and coming back sometime around 7:00 or 8:00 in the evening. Customer service was no help, and the technician they were supposed to send never showed, never called, and no one followed up on the open service call. More >

My Road Trip with Dash

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3 years ago
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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 that’s always on. This makes the Dash unique in four ways:

  1. Live traffic: This is the primary reason I chose the Dash over other GPS systems. The Dash displays traffic for all roads (not just highways) from a third-party traffic provider, historical data, and – this is the cool part – other Dash users. See, the Dash More >
 

How old is this modem, anyway?

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4 years ago
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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 with your cable internet, and you hate calling tech support as much as I do, you can access this page to see if you can figure out the problem by yourself. If you don’t know what any of it means (I honestly don’t, either), you can do some quick googling and probably More >

Held hostage by cable

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4 years ago
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My cable internet service went out for about half of last week, which served to remind me how important Internet access really is, and how little choice I have in my area. In the last eight years, I’ve had uninterrupted cable internet service, but thanks to mergers and market trade-offs, I’ve changed cable companies four times. The last time, it was when Comcast and Time Warner Cable divvied up a competitor and decided to trade customers in certain markets, just like that. I can’t imagine any other industry where this is possible, can you? It’d be like you had a flight booked on American More >

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