It is a sad day that any human passes away.  It is a very sad day for the tech industry that has lost a true visionary.  Never much of a Fruit fan, but regardless if you loved Apple or despised, Steve (with Woz help) really is what made Apple, Apple.

Personally, this will be the day either Apple will survive to live another day or will be the final call.  Steve was Apple and without him, how will they have the vision to still be Apple and not just another tech company.  If the 1st keynote without Steve at the helm was any indication, things don’t look so good.

I will end, Apple you better get it right going forward, or Steve’s passing will be even one of many sad points from here on out!

Tags: Apple, End, Passing, Steve Jobs

So when I don’t think my FIOS pipe can get better, I contact Verizon to “renegotiate” my current package deal. Come to find out they don’t even have my Internet speed plan anymore. So I see what options I have. The funny thing is I save an Abe for HD, and use that to upgrade my speed plan. So now I get 25/25 instead of the old 20/5. Talk about a difference!

Well, of course you have to validate it!

What can I say, Comcrap never provided service like that. They kept increasing the monthly bill and I kept getting less! Verizon please keep up the quality!

Tags: FIOS, Internet, Speed, Verizon

This is better than words can say… read on!

OK, ‘Shibboleet’…

Tags: call, shibboleet, support, tech

So the first 10 years of 2000 are gone and we are on to twenty-ten.  Exciting!

Things I am hoping for or expect to see this year:

1. Great year for our country to get out the mess it is in everywhere (we wont get on that soapbox).
2. Better / improved year for one self — don’t we all pray for this related to #1.
3. Social networking trends become old hat. (Please just make it all stop)
4. Year of Google… Watch for them to take a bigger stake in the world stage.  Remember, do no harm!
5. Microsoft loses even more face; even though Windows 7 bested Vista.
6. Firefox becomes the leader in the browser market.
7. Adobe becomes the most hacked / tool-set leveraged to do damage (PDF, Flash, Flex, etc).
8. Year of storage.  This will be the year that spinning media will start to see real loses to SSD and other tech, which will be good for us all.
9. CPU + GPU will become APU.  Watch for new types of “super” uses of these devices to make things change on the computing stage.
10. AI.  Refer back to #4.

Dec 31, 2010 I want to see what if any of these ideas come true during this coming year.

Lots of hope and prosperity can be there, just if we don’t mess it up as usual.  Right!?  And we say humans are the smart ones!

I have to say that Verizon FIOS is one of the best moves we have made.

Switching from Comcast to FIOS is like night and day. These are our personal experience so far and YMMV.

• Cost Less
• Get More
• Better Service
• HD Quality is incredible (getting HD for less than the cost of SD on Comcast)
• Internet pipe is not shared with my neighbors!
• Incredible net speed
• Really nice router

The last one I have to admit I was shocked about.  I have always had my own firewall and network gear, but Verizon has really done a nice job on their router (but that is another post).

Internet speed:

The tech that showed up to install the service was awesome.   Really nice guy that called before showing up to tell me when he would be there (was 1 minute early from when he said he would be there).  Did everything that I had ordered in a very timely matter and it all just worked!  Took under 3 hours for us to get all new Internet and two TV receivers.  All working better than expected.

Just sweet!

More to come.

Tags: Cable, FIOS, HD, Internet, Performance

It’s always interesting to see what other developers use as their real workspace when they have control over it.  (Unlike cubical heck).

Once such sweet space is something Mitch Haile built.  I stumbled across it in one of me RSS feed consumption extravaganas and have to admit the space is really, really nice, but I have to say the screen real estate and mini server room/closet is very nice for a home build.

Just had to share the nerd eye candy for others to consume!

http://www.biscade.com/office/

Snaps on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwa32/sets/72157607284828899/

Very nice work Mitch!  Kudos

Tags: development, hardware, home, network, office, righteous, software