This past week has been full of chaos. Am I talking about the revolts happening in Egypt? Nope – closer to home. Canada. Political unrest? Nope – Internet bandwidth metering. You see, the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved UBB (usage based billing) for the incumbent carrier Bell Canada in September. Competitive ISPs, which connect to […]

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I had the chance to catch a recent 60 Minutes episode that aired this past Sunday with a story about Bloom Energy. For a quick recap: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6DLyruTqHI Essentially Bloom Energy is making the statement that: The Bloom Box is a solid oxide fuel cell made by Bloom Energy that can use fossil fuel, bio-fuel or […]

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It sure has been an interesting week for sure. The passing of so many celebrities has many specifically say… “Death Comes In Threes”. Well – I surely remember Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and Michael Jackson. But today marks another passing for somebody that I felt was more enjoyable than all of them. Billy Mays passed […]

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In about a week’s time, Charter Communication will no longer be carrying the Saint Louis CBS affiliate KMOV television signal. I stumbled across this tidbit of fairly relevant information just today as EngadgetHD had an article about the new HDTV channels arriving shortly. So a possible upside to this would be no longer being subjected […]

A nice article from Matt Apuzzo, AP Writer floated up on Yahoo News this morning that prompted me to share my distrust of our $800 billion nightmare the tax payers have already been swindled by. Heck – I worked at Citi for close to 10 years and didn’t think they should get a dime for […]

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Pretty dramatic title for such a quick post, right? That’s because for the first time in two weeks, I was exposed to the 15 minutes of Guiding Light that C can’t live without each morning. It seems to cause me a little bit of extraneous drama that I don’t normally have in my life… Anyway… […]

A child’s birthday party at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant was cut short after a fight broke out between two mothers. Natick police said the mom of the 9-year-old birthday boy apparently became enraged because the other woman’s son was “hogging” an arcade game. Sgt. Paul Thompson said Catherine Aliaga, 38, and Tarsha Williams, 33, […]

Tonight has had it’s fair share of newsworthy events… Not only did we get a pretty nice looking lunar eclipse (with a very clear sky in Saint Louis)… but it seems that our US government has successfully blown up an orbiting satellite in outer space. A missile launched from a Navy ship struck a dying […]