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Category Archives: Tech
Net Neutrality Open Letter: A Follow-Up
Yesterday I received a reply to an email I’d sent to Sen. Ben Cardin that contained a link to my open letter on Net Neutrality. Here is what he said: Dear Christiaan: Thank you for contacting me in opposition to network neutrality. Due to the widespread growth of Internet broadband use, the issue that Congress [...]
Also posted in Editorial, Net Neutrality Tagged Ben Cardin, FCC, Internet Freedom Preservation Act, net neutrality Leave a comment
An Open Letter to Congress, the FCC and the White House on Net Neutrality & the Google-Verizon Deal
The Net Neutrality debate seems to have reached critical mass, and it’s making me angry. Google and Verizon have struck a deal to submit a proposal to lawmakers that, in short, would stand to kill the Internet as we know it. I’m not being dramatic or fear mongering, I’m stating the reality of the situation. [...]
Also posted in Editorial, Net Neutrality Tagged Congress, FCC, Google, net neutrality, Verizon, White House 3 Comments
Why the New YouTube Mobile Site is Better Than the Mobile Apps
A couple of weeks ago YouTube released their new mobile site, which added some really cool features. The most notable: watch videos directly from the mobile site in a device-native format, without the need for a dedicated app. Aside from this being really cool from a technical standpoint – as an indicator of the true [...]
Google Voice Goes Public – Right Before the New iPhone
Google has just announced that starting today, Google Voice will be open to the general public & will no longer require an invite. For those unfamiliar, Google Voice is a service from Google that gives you a phone number which you in turn can have forward to any combination of phones, use as a voicemail [...]
Best Buy/Geek Squad Doesn’t Fully Grasp the Concept of “Customer Service”
Now this is the story all about how My life got flipped, turned upside down And I’d like to take a minute just sit right there I’ll tell you how I became screwed by a store called Best Buy. Based on the title of this post and its apparent topic you may be thinking that [...]
Also posted in Editorial, Lifestream, Mobile Tagged Android, Best Buy, customer service, Droid, Mobile, Motorola Droid 3 Comments
U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training – A Developing Web Presence
As I’m sure regular readers know, I went to Coast Guard Basic Training this past summer, having enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. Since coming back to MMA, I’ve had quite a few of my shipmates ask me about it, some of whom are interested in doing it themselves. In my Internet travels, I [...]
Five WordPress Plugins to Make Your Blogging Year Better
As an avid WordPress user, I have come to rely heavily on some of my plugins. Occasionally I’ll browse the WordPress.org plugins section looking for cool ones to try, but usually I stumble across them trying to solve a problem or make my life easier. I’ve come up with a list of the ones that [...]
Deluge: The BitTorrent Client I’ve Been Looking For
I’ve been using Azureus for years as my BitTorrent client, but I’ve been increasingly dissatisfied with its performance. I often had trouble getting downloads to start (even with no proxies or encryption enabled), and it was hogging system resources it didn’t deserve. It’s become more bloated with each new release, and it got to the [...]
Why I Host with Dreamhost
I switched hosting companies at the beginning of December, because I needed hosting with a little more power and flexibility than I had. I looked at some of the hosts listed on the WordPress site, which all seemed like good options. Then a friend of mine recommended Dreamhost, so looked it up, and was impressed [...]
Who Else is Bored by the Apple TV?