Grab bag: Capping broadband
Comcast to cap monthly consumer broadband (CNET) So let me get this straight: Comcast has slower bandwidth than everyone else AND they’re going to cap your usage AND they’re not providing you with a way to monitor that AND if you breach it twice, they shut you off for a year? Sign me up!!! (tags: [...]
It’s a wonder that I still know how to breathe
After months of following the Democratic primaries and cheering for Barack Obama’s victory, did I watch his acceptance speech last night? Did I scour the crowd for signs of my friends Greg Greene and Jen Sorenson, who were both in the crowd? Did I relish a speech well done, a fight well fought, and clear [...]
Akismet update 2.1.8 fixes “delete all” problem
A quick note to those who live and die by Akismet’s comment spam filtering: recent versions of Akismet appeared to have broken the ability to delete your spam comments, but version 2.1.8, released late yesterday, fixes the bug. Not a showstopping bug by any stretch of the imagination, since the plugin automatically flushes spam comments [...]
