http://www.blur101.com Everydays happenings, and some not. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:15:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Imagine Waking up to this self-explored IM conversation in the morning... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 5:01:01 -Your up late 5:01:04 - or early.. 5:01:10 - Does it matter really? 5:01:12 - happy 4th 5:01:15 - of July.. 5:01:20 - ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/07/04/no-away-message-required/ Just yesterday, I made the 'mistake' of purchasing a Belkin Wireless Router (F5D9230-4) and discovered that the lovely features that were packed along with it were all foiled by the elementry method of connecting to the internet completely FAILING and resulting in disconnecting and reconnecting CONSTANTLY. After 25 minutes and ultimately ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/05/11/fixed-belkin-router-loses-connection-frequently/ DSL Reports recently published an article that highlights a large, US-based ISP, Comcast, will soon be implementing overage caps on their customer's internet usage to 250GB/month with 1 free gimmie. Additional bandwidth would be $15/10GB thereafter. Full article http://www.blur101.com/2008/05/11/isp-plans-to-cap-customer-traffic-overusage-fees-involved/ Ran across a neat tutorial on how to turn any room in your house into a sound proof practice room for you and your band. Go check it out over at wired. It's not as complex as you may think =P http://www.blur101.com/2008/04/17/how-to-sound-proof-walls-in-a-room/ Quick post... I wasted a bunch of time looking for these song packs so I figure I'd help out some fellow Googlers out there. StepMania DDR Songs (and others) may be found at this REALLY pro site that has pretty much all of the DDR songs and more: http://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v4/simfiles.php [Others] http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/sims/ I'll keep this list ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/04/17/looking-for-ddr-song-packs-for-stepmania-got-em/ So appearantly the gormet frozen food company Bertolli has a video contest going on and are now voting for the top winners in their competition. A couple of them are very humorous while the other two feature a very talented singer (Bravissimo Bertolli) and a romantic night as a 25 ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/04/11/funny-and-talented-contestors-in-bertollis-romantic-video-contest/ Ringing in at only 16 lbs. comes the PS3 laptop, complete with... You guessed it! A PS3! This creative reconception of the PS3 is just another one of Ben Heck's last console recreations. Just thought I'd share. http://www.blur101.com/2008/04/11/the-ps3-laptop/ Appearantly Microsoft had this to say after Yahoo decided to test Adsense along side their search results: "Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/04/11/microsoft-cries-over-yahoo-again/ the owner of a large website and VPN hosting company personally contacted me after repeated attempts to best the Cisco URT client with this: What's up with that Dorm anyways? It has to be the most restrictive network I have seen, even worse than China. I give up on this ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/04/11/you-know-your-dorm-network-sucks-when/ Ventrilo 3 still sucks. Did anyone really see the new 'features' in Ventrilo 3 as needed, wanted, or otherwise? Basically, I think that Flag was building a product for himself and collecting royalties from server companies. Network Administrator doesn't feel like opening the port 16 weeks after requesting and checking back ... http://www.blur101.com/2008/03/07/ventrilo-30-update/