Monthly Archive for April, 2006

Save The Internet

Published
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Adam
on April 28, 2006
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I have been seeing a lot around the ’sphere about the Save The Internet campaign. I had heard a little about it the other day but didn’t really pay it much attention and actually I thought it was kind of cheesy. But the more I read about it, the more concerned I get and eventually decided to sign the petition myself.

I first started reading more about what was going on at the Performancing blog. Aparrently AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress to allow sites to pay them more for their website to come up at the top of search lists and open faster and easier. Any site that doesn’t pay them will load slower. As an independent website owner, this would basically cause my site to disappear. It would still be there physically, but good luck finding it and getting it to load.

A great article that sums up what is going on can be found at CopyBlogger. I hope more people will respond to this. To see the latest standings in congress you can visit SaveTheInternet.

With all the attention this is now getting, if this passes, many people and companies will suffer from it, but I think a new Internet would emerge eventually. There is no way that those big companies could keep everyone quiet. New companies would emerge providing their own network access, and eventually everyone would migrate there for freedom of access.

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Smartphones

Published
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Adam
on April 23, 2006
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I think I am going to try something new. I shall ask the blogosphere what Smartphone/RIM they would recommend. When I get back from deployment I think I am going to purchase a new Smartphone/RIM. It needs to be compatible with T-mobile as I am still under contract with them. If anyone has any suggestions/links/reviews please leave them in the comments. I have about a month before I get back so that should be plenty of times to gather a few tips. I’d like to thank everyone in advance for their help and suggestions.

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Performancing

Published
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Adam
on April 21, 2006
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I know it has been a while since my last post and I was hoping to post a little more often while on deployment.  Unfortunately when out to sea the internet has been quite rare and the times that it is up it is very slow.  Well, it seems to be working a little faster now and I was able to install the latest version of Performancing into my PortableFirefox.  This seems like it will make it a little easier for me to publish some content more often.  I am also working on some other blog ideas, that way I can have different blogs for different topics.  I am still learning how to use it, but it seems pretty neat.  I need to learn how to integrate tags into it and also how to spell check.  I am sure I will be able to figure it out though given some time and some reading on the internet.