• Cableone’s data caps suck

    February 1, 2015 / No Comments

    I have just two more weeks left of my “overage punishment plan” through Cableone. I so can’t wait for Midco. I’m in my third month paying $140 for my internet because I went over their stupid cap, and their system is to slow to warn you until it’s too late. So for the last three months I’ve been watching my usage like it’s 1993 and I’m on AOL.

    I’m have to limit myself to 10 GBs a day, and it’s not that easy. I had to switch all my video podcast to the lowest crappy quality, and actually unsubscribed from a few that weren’t worth the data. I now sneakernet my cloud backups to work and use their internet to backup. I try to download my audio podcasts when I’m out and about and can find free wifi. I haven’t watched much Netflix in the last three months either, yet, I’m just under my 10 GB/day limit. It’s really annoying, and greatly diminishes the otherwise good quality service I’m getting.

    I’ll be on vacation in Hawaii when I’ll be eligible to switch plans, and you bet I’m going to be taking time out of my vacation to do it. According to Mico’s site, I’ll hopefully be able to get their service sometime this year, and I don’t believe they have any caps. At least I couldn’t find that in the small print. The day I can switch I will. Stupid me for believeing that Cableone’s “no overage fees” ment no caps.

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  • RSS better not die

    January 28, 2015 / No Comments

    Yesterday I blogged about blogging dying. RSS is another of my loves that seems to be dying. I’ve read about so many people that have given up on RSS for Twitter or Facebook. While I get their point, RSS is like an email inbox that is always filling up, I don’t think I could ever give it up. I’ve tried doing it a day here and a day there, but I alway fear I’m going to miss something in my feeds. I need my RSS feeds, and it sucks that they are dying a little.

    I’m finding more and more sites don’t have RSS feeds anymore. YouTube is one example. I subscribe to a bunch of YouTube channels in my feed reader, while older channel’s feeds seem to work fine, new channels don’t seem to have feeds. It sucks because YouTube’s subscription management is a mess. I hope this isn’t another sign of Google giving up on RSS.

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  • Blog about blogging

    January 27, 2015 / No Comments

    So today I noticed I received a new comment on my blog. I almost forgot that that was even a thing. I’ve never been popular enough to get too many comments, but I use to comment on a lot of blogs. It’s been years since I’ve commented on a blog. I think I’m going to change that this year. The problem is nobody blogs anymore.

    I’ve Said it before, but I really miss all the blogs I use to read. After reading someone’s blog for years, I really feel like I know them. They feel like real friends that I know a lot about, but might not even know their real name. Is that crazy?

    Of the 100s of blogs I’m still subscribed to, only a handful still blog. I feel like I’ve lost a lot of friends despite following a lot of them on Twitter. Twitter just isn’t the same.

    I’ve thought about shutting my blog down, but then where would I rant? Where would I share the Internet links that I find interesting? The though of shutting down my blog makes me want to blog even more. I don’t look at my stats, I have no idea if anybody reads this, and I don’t care. I do it for me.

    So if your still reading, thanks? I guess? And go post something on your blog, even if it’s just a picture of your breakfast.

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