Archive - January, 2006

Sneak Peek Movie Promo

A friend of Laura and I invited us (and gave us the tickets) to go see a ‘sneak peek’ of Glory Road, the new Disney movie.

I’m not a huge fan of watching sports, or movies about sports, but this was a pretty good movie. Yes, it’s a Disney movie, and probably “family safe”, but it touched on a lot of issues that the kids probably won’t know anything about… so I guess it’s a good opportunity to explain some things. Anyway, I didn’t mean to be a movie critic or anything. But it was a good movie. Overall. Mostly.

Anyway…

We had a great time.

I think my DSL is being screwy. First, Opera stopped going to Adobe.com (anything else is fine, as you can see… er… imagine maybe). But IE was doing everything fine, until I tried to download a trial of Adobe Audition. When I had to register to download, I select “United States” in the Where I Am thingy, and click Register… and it can’t find the server.

Is that me? Or them?
ARRRG!!!

The End.

Ahhh… Broadband.

Ah, yes.
Back to the good ol’ days. It’s weird. I had a cable modem back in ’99-2000, and then moved back to West Tennessee and had to settle for dial-up. The local phone company where I live has a monopoly on the lines, and is owned by the same people that own the cable company. Your options for Internet access here are:

  1. Get Dial-Up (from any company, of course).
  2. Pay ~$60 per month for DSL, provided by the local telco.

For a long, long time that price was outrageous – but then we got desperate. Since Christmas, we’ve signed up for and started using DSL. The one upside to the local telco DSL is that although you pay $60, they don’t put the caps on bandwidth like other, bigger telco’s often do. So I get (and yes, I seem to be getting) the full 1.4Mbps.

I still think I’d rather have cable. I’m not sure how that’s doing these days though. It’s been awhile.

In other news, I’m excited about installing/upgrading to WordPress 2.0, which I’ll be doing in my free time, within the next 72 hours or so. I’ll let you know how that goes.
Maybe.

The End.

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