Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks are cutting some 19 channels tonight. Some of those are: – Nickelodeon – Noggin – MTV – VH1 – Spike – Comedy Central – TV Land You can complain about this change by calling the following numbers (must be at least 18 years old to call): ~ Time Warner Cable customers: 1-800-762-3786 ~ …
First New Year’s Greeting
I got my first New Year’s greeting and it comes from my favorite football club, Partizan from Belgrade, Serbia. 🙂
PowerBook G4 RAM upgrade
A friend of mine came over a week ago with an old PowerBook G4 and asked if I could get the OS up to date (he brought the OS 10.5 disk) and make it run faster. Well, considering it’s a 2004 machine with 1 GHz PowerPC processor I figured it would be able to run the latest Apple operating system …
Starting New Year’s resolutions early
Every year each of us (even if only subconsciously) come up with a list of things we want to improve on in the following year and almost certainly for one reason or another, fail by mid March. I’m no exception to this rule, but this year I have decided to put them on paper for the first time and really …
Holiday shopping
It’s 8:42 PM and I can finally enjoy a nice cup of coffee as I get to relax a bit. I’ve spent most of today in Willowbrook mall and several other stores shopping for family and friends. I have started my Christmas shopping today and will hopefully finish it tomorrow as that’s about as much mall traffic I can take …
This is it, finally!
Today is the day of my last final exam. Ever! (or so I hope at least) I think that that sentence deserves to be separate from the rest of the post (with some extra formatting 😉 ) as it makes me very happy and it took a while to finally get here. As I mentioned last week this is the …
Value of social networks
I have been asked several times what’s the value of getting involved in online social networks so here are my 4 ¢ (adjusted for inflation) on that topic. 😉 Most social networking services have been designed differently (technology, functionality, features…) with different customers/segments in mind, but all of them share one common theme, enabling people to socialize and build online …
The end is near, now what
Last night I took my second to last final exam. One more on the 18th and I’m done, done with school! 🙂 Before I go any further with this post I want to say that last night’s exam of 125 questions in 90 minutes was a bit much. Everyone I spoke with afterward agreed that the class was interesting and …
When Verizon fails
Today was certainly one of those days which would live up to an ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”. From around 1:20 pm until 5:30 pm we (MSU campus) were separated from the rest of the world. Well, it wasn’t quite that dramatic, but it sure sounds intriguing, right? 🙂 During those 4+ hours we were without …
Google Reader
Somehow over the past few years I have settled on Feedreader as my RSS aggregator of choice. Overall, it’s a good application, it had its minor issues along the way, but it was doing its job quite well. Throughout the years of my RSS subscription mania I have accumulated hundreds of feeds which became rather unmanageable and would generate thousands …