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A flophouse of bloggers…

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When I got out of college, we headed to a ski town, or nearby, and settled with a bunch of similar-minded people and skied all winter long. We had a bunch of parties and worshiped powder days.

But there is a new kind of flophouse and that is in Washington, D.C. where several bloggers have moved in together and now have a flophouse of bloggers.

According to an article in the New York Times, Washington Doesn’t Sleep Here, “The Flophouse bloggers may not be part of the traditional mainstream news media, but they are certainly part of the mainstream blogosphere that is helping drive discourse in the city and the country.” Continue reading →

Apple TV Update is here

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I just got an email this evening that said “Rentals are now available for your Apple TV.”

So what am I doing now?

Updating my Apple TV. This is going to be interesting to see how this works, how the user interface looks, and if I am going to like it.

I’ll let you know in a future post how this goes and what my experiences are.

BlackBerry service falters in North America

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The Denver Post – BlackBerry service falters in N. America

This was quite inconvenient today. It is amazing how dependent I have become to my Blackberry, especially today.

It was down for me from about 1:15 PM to about 6 PM and drove me crazy because I was dealing with several media issues that I needed to be communicating with my office in Washington, D.C., Denver, and our office in Loveland and I was on the road going to an media interview.

To make matters worse, Verizon was quite slow in coming back online following when RIM got their part back online. More inconvenience. Thanks Verizon.

I just wish that RIM wouldn’t have these outages and they should work on a backup system so they have some redundancy built in. People are becoming more dependent on their Blackberry for communication, especially in emergency situations.

Cut four undersea cables, shame on you, cut a fifth, also shame on you

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Cut four undersea cables, shame on you, cut a fifth, also shame on you – Engadget

This is from Engadget. Some very strange things are going on in the middle east where cables that carry the backbone of the Internet are being cut, severely restricting the bandwidth to and from those countries.

Something is quite suspicious.

I love V for VPN

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I just want to say that I really like V for VPN as a VPN provider.  I travel for work and have a VPN for that, but I wanted a VPN for non-work stuff.

I have found V for VPN to be incredibly fast and it does not slow down my system.  That doesn’t mean the hotel Internet connections are great.

I used Hot Spot VPN for a while and it did not work all the time and it constantly slowed down my system.  Hot Spot VPN was $8.88 a month also, about twice as much as V for VPN is for it top notch service at $4.95 a month.

What make this worthwhile and amazing is that V for VPN was started and is run by a high school student who will graduate a year early this May.  I think this is a worthwhile business to support.