Davey Shafik's Pixelated Dreams

OK, so we've been on Cable for about 6 months now. We went from 1.5Mbit DSL (shared between 4 people) to 5Mbit cable, then we went to 3 people and well, its been really nice and fast, we use Brighthouse Networks, and they're simply great.

Well, today I got a flyer through the mail, saying I could have 10Mbit cable for just $10 extra a month, so I called up, heres a transcript of our conversation:

Me> "Hi, I just got a flyer in the mail about 10Mbit for $10 extra a month. I'd like to order than please."
Her> "OK, thats great"
Me> "How long will that take to install?"
Her> "Oh, it should be done in about 5 minutes"

.... 5 MINUTES?! So here I am, getting 600KB/s downloads whilst the other people in the house are playing online games. Very nice

- Davey

Good things happened today...

First and foremost, I attained my Green Card today (though I'm told the actual card is pink!) so I'm lucky enough to stay with my wonderful for at least 2 more years

Secondly, that said same wife, bought me a Samsung 930b 19" LCD Monitor for christmas - now I just need a machine to hook it up to, heh

- Davey

To all of my faithful followers (Hi Mum, Hi Amy!) I'd like to apologize for the recent downtime, and to request that if you did deign to send me e-mail during that period, to please resend it. Unless you're a spammer, in which case, you can get hit by a bus.

I had a hardware issue etc etc, its back to normal

- Davey

So, after just an amazing time at the conference, myself and the wife decided that we were going to spend our weekend doing as little as possible. We went in the hot tub, enjoyed the pool, the food and the hotel room.

Now I'm sat in Detroit Aiport, which just has to be the nicest airport I've been to yet, as far as purely aesthetic things go. I prefer Tampa for the layout.

We came in at Terminal C after flying a crop duster (literally, had 2/1 seat configuration on the aisles, and ony like 10 rows, and it had propellers) to Detroit from Toronto. Then we got to go through what would normally have been an extremely boring tunnel with the Jetsons moving sidewalks to hell, but instead they spend the big bucks and have an undulating lighting effect from rail (of the sidewalk) to the ceiling, like glass walls with pretty lights behind it. It truly is awesome.

Then we found out our flight was delayed an hour. It appears Northwest Airlines mechanics have been on strike the past few weeks and today they decided to fire them and keep the temporary workes on as permenant fixtures at the lower pay rate.

So we make our way to the departure gate at 9:45pm only to get here and the screen reads 11:30pm departure. So the staff turn around because even they didn't realise that and we ask what the problem is and look up again and its 11:05pm. I really don't know if were going to get home till at least 3am and I'm supposed to work in the morning. Ugh!

- Davey

P.S.
the security guy at the customs in Toronto decided to joke with us about my not being able to come back to the US, needless to say we almost had a heart attack. We still have to go through second level security (luckily, no cavity search!)

So, I sold out, I added Google Ads. The cost of my servers is increasing and the bills are piling up, the usual story. So, click them. Or not. Your choice, Google !ToS says I can't tell you to do it, so whatever

I made it center by doing this in my template:

<div id="mainborder">
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
  </script>
....

and this in my CSS:

#mainborder iframe {
    margin-left: 25px; 
    width: 728px;
    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
}

So now everybody can sell out!

::hands out rotten tomatoes::

- Davey