Monthly Archives: September 2009

999999999 (9 nines)

Ha! I caught you. I bet you think this post is about HA or some way to keep your servers run­ning. Nope, just an obser­va­tion. 1,2,3) Today is 9/9/9 4) there are 9 let­ters in Sep­tem­ber 5) there are 9 let­ters in Wednes­day 6) it is the 252 day of the year, 2+5+2=9, 7) I was born

Service Providors and Big Brother Wag Each Others Tails Again

I love how there is all of this squab­bling about what the def­i­n­i­tion of broad­band is. “The Com­mis­sion should con­tinue to look at max­i­mum adver­tised speed rather than some mea­sure of ‘actual’ speed,” and con­sumers have “access to broad­band capa­bil­ity” when­ever they have the oppor­tu­nity to pur­chase ser­vices and equip­ment that enable them to access the