Monthly Archives: August 2005

Okay.. Have we had enough? NO!!!!!

Google, in their attempt to take over the world, has set up a new Instant Messaging service! How cool! Called Coogle Talk. It’s linked to your gmail account and seems pretty cool so far, though I have absolutely no contacts on it yet. I even like how google publishes their server information so that you can set up third-party IM clients such as GAIM, iChat, Trillian and others for their service. I encourage anybody with a gmail account to check it out!

Click Here to check out Google Talk!

Those of you who have a TiVo will completely understand while the rest of you will have no clue and probably believe that I’m just nuts.

It’s alreadt started! I sent out my TiVo for repair today, and watching TV is not as enjoyable as it was only 24 hours ago. After the freak storm and power outage that killed half the electronics in my house (includeing my Cable Modem, Network Switch, Router’s Network Card, and 2 TV Boxes) my Tivo stopped making it’s calls in for updated programming. I left it running as long as I could, but at 5AM this morning, TiVo ran out of programming. Every channel gave a blank name and description of it’s shows. It was horrible.

I’m considering going to Cablevision and picking up a DVR for a month while they repair the TiVo. I should have it back in 2 to 3 weeks.

Aaaarrrgggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m Baaaaaack!!!!

I got my new Cablemodem today, and picked up a new switch, replaced the damaged NIC in my firewall and I’m up and running! weeeeeeeeee!

On friday, Long Island had this crazy freak-storm. It rained like a drunk taking a piss for a good 10 minutes, complete with Thunder and Lightning which took out the power in my neighborhood. If the power wasn’t enough it also took out 2 Tivos, 1 Cable box, a Network Switch, and of course, The ethernet port on my cablemodem. It’s completely sucked not having Internet access all weekend.

Panera Bread to the rescue!!!

Panera Bread is the only place that I know of that is a FREE Wi-Fi hotspot, so armed with my Orinoco Wifi card and High-gain antenna, I am able to park outside of the store and surf, read mail, etc… so here I sit. Entering even this blog. Hopefully I can swap my modem tomorrow morning, but if not, I have an apointment for a tech to come with a replacement on friday.