So.. yeah.  I was wandering through some ancient bookmarks when I saw that I still had a link to my old LJ account and figured "What the heck?" and popped over to see who's still around ( Read more... )

Wow.  I wouldn't have seen this one coming.   It seems that Best Buy has purchased Speakeasy.net -- one of my more favored national ISPs.

See this link for details.

As seen here.

This is not good news at all.   Vonage has been providing a very low-price alternative to the absolute crap service that Verizon has provided all along with its telephone service.   Now it seems that some of that ride (if not all of it) could be over soon.   Time will tell!

In response to Mistwolf's journal-posting of the below meme, I am posting it to my own journal.   If you wish to participate, I will try to be as timely as possible in placing comments onto your journal as well.

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It's rather amusing to know that running the vacuum cleaner is an easy way to make my fiance happy.    It adds to the sense of fulfillment that goes beyond simply having a clean house.

Other updates:  MORE SNOW.   Ugh.   We're getting a "snow squall" according to WTOP news (a news-only radio station that covers the Washington, DC metropolitan area ( Read more... )

Working (living?) the life of an IT consultant catering to the Small-to-Midsize Business (SMB) market is a rather hard but rewarding thing.  
I've been with Optimal Networks (http://www.optimalnetworks.com) for about a year and a half now and it's been an interesting ride.   I've seen "Engineers" come and go but the overall atmosphere of the ( Read more... )

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Ugh. It's been a rather long time since I posted here. Might need to dust this place off a bit.

For those who have not yet heard:

Verizon and Yahoo! have teamed up to offer 768K/128K DSL service for $15/month with a 1-year contract.

Click here to go and check it out!

A friend of mine sent a link to Adventure Park USA in order to let me know about its upcoming opening. Knowing that I have a few DC Metro area friends who see my LJ, I figured that I'd post about it here to share it with everyone! :)

If you aren't getting ENOUGH attention from people in this world, click here! The "BodyPerks" product is pretty much guaranteed to garner a TON of attention for you..

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With that said, I find the comments to be particularly hilarious! So how many of you ladies would actually use (or consider using) such a product? Just curious!