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The day without the Internet
OK, maybe it was just a few hours without the Internet, but that isn't as catchy a title.
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Breakdown in customer service
Three years ago, I signed a contract for my business class cable modem service. I was quite pleased with the service, but over a year ago I stopped hosting my own websites and my own email, so while the extra bandwidth was nice, I didn't need the static IP addresses nor the priority service for my cable modem (once they said that they'd come out within a few hours to replace the modem, but it turns out they were able to fix the problem remotely). The switch will save me about $55 per month. This may not be a lot, but I rather it in my pocket than theirs.
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Elves working overtime
Friday evening (OK, I realize I'm late), I ordered some stuff from Amazon (my wife signed up for Amazon Prime) and low and behold, some of it arrived today, Monday. I also ordered an armband for my iPod Nano at the same time and it also arrived this morning. Of course, all of this is with free shipping. I feel kind of bad at getting free expedited shipping, but if merchants are offering it (or we're paying a little for it with Amazon prime), I'll take it!
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Replaced a tuner with an Ethernet switch
Last weekend I replaced our radio tuner with an Ethernet switch (a 24 port NetGear switch as I ran out of ports on my 8 port switch) as we never used the tuner and even when we did, it was hard to get a station that wasn't fuzzy. (OK, it physically replaced it, but didn’t replace the functionality.) It almost seems that the radio tuner is on the way out, at least in our household. My wife listens to XM Radio in the car and we listen to XM Radio in the house.