Via Gizmodo:
“Austin, San Antonio, Rochester, NY, and Greensboro, North Carolina are the next cities to suffer Time Warner’s comparatively draconian 40GB caps at the high-end—Comcast’s is 250GB, AT&T’s is 150GB, and all of them suck.”

This totally blows. Let TWC know how dissatisfied you are with this decision. Vote with your wallet if need be. If Netsville serviced my house, I would already be canceling my account.

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Google recently announced that the GrandCentral service they bought some time ago is finally going to be reborn as Google Voice. I’ve been a GrandCentral user for a long time, and I have been afraid that Google might kill it: we haven’t seen any new features in quite a while.
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It’s been a while since I’ve written, so it’s probably well past time for an update.

Sad News:

• My aunt passed away at the beginning of last month. It was very sudden, and I’m still having trouble dealing with it.
• My MacBook Pro was urinated on (it’s a long story – email me if you actually want to hear it).

Good News:

• I was able to replace the MacBook Pro, and the other one was fixed!
• I was accepted at the Rochester Institute of Technology! I still have some paperwork to do, but as long as I keep my grades where they’ve been (or better) I’ll be set to go there in September.
• I’m all moved in to my new place. I like it a lot here. I’m in a house with 6 others.
• Things are well at work. I’m loving Shavlik NetChk Protect. I can remotely push out all kinds of software updates to the machines in an organization. Agile officially announced that anyone who purchases a 1Password license from today on will recieve a free upgrade to version 3.0 (which looks AMAZING so far).

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Today… in a word…. sucked. Not only did we get dumped on by a blizzard, causing me to be home-bound for the day, two pieces of expensive hardware died.
My main switch drops all connections about once every 10 – 20 minutes. I temporary replaced it with my Netgear 24 port monster. I bought a gigabit replacement for it. I’ve wanted to upgrade to gigabit for a while, and this gives me an excuse, but I really wasn’t planning on the expense.
Not only that, my AirPort Extreme (which I use as a NAS and DHCP/DNS server) decided to follow in the switch’s footsteps. Luckily I don’t use it as a router, so haven’t been without internet. But I had to replace it, so I decided to go with a 1TB Time Capsule.
I was planning on buying a new MacBook Pro for when I transfer to RIT but now I’m not so sure that’s going to happen (or, at least it won’t be what I was planning on).

In addition, apparently our furnace is on the fritz. Right before Christmas. Perfect.

Well, it’s that time of year. No, not Christmas. FINALS. I just finished my last one. I had 3, all today. Now I’m done for the semester though, and that is such a relief.
I’m looking at a house for next semester.

In other news, I’ve migrated (almost) all my crap to Google Apps. My gmail forwards there, I’ve got iCal setup to sync there, my important docs are there, etc. Some things I’m still missing: Google Reader, and other misc Google Account services. Because I don’t have an actual ‘Google Account’ for my Google Apps name… those services won’t transfer. I haven’t found an easy way to create a new Google account and migrate those kinds of things over. Hopefully Google makes that easier in the future.

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