Comments on: Vacation Is a Time to Blog http://toryanarchist.com/2008/07/19/vacation-is-a-time-to-blog/ www.ToryAnarchist.com Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:57:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Tim http://toryanarchist.com/2008/07/19/vacation-is-a-time-to-blog/#comment-1939 Tim Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:59:12 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=659#comment-1939 "Leadership Institute"?? Why aren't there any "Followship Institutes" (apologies to '30 Rock') “Leadership Institute”?? Why aren’t there any “Followship Institutes” (apologies to ‘30 Rock’)

]]> By: Scott Lahti http://toryanarchist.com/2008/07/19/vacation-is-a-time-to-blog/#comment-1917 Scott Lahti Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:26:33 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=659#comment-1917 Wow. Bummer indeed. 'least we stand to get more blogging from the TA, that's the upside. Wow. Bummer indeed. ‘least we stand to get more blogging from the TA, that’s the upside.

]]> By: Daniel McCarthy http://toryanarchist.com/2008/07/19/vacation-is-a-time-to-blog/#comment-1916 Daniel McCarthy Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:10:47 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=659#comment-1916 A small, local ISP is the way to go. Here on the outskirts of the imperial capital, though, all we get to choose between are megalithic cable company Comcast and megalithic phone company Verizon. DSL is a bit cheaper, but Verizon wants to tear up your front yard and the adjoining street to lay fiber-optic cable in order to install it. Comcast -- mirabile dictu! -- seemed like less hassle. But it still wasn't easy: I tried to sign up over the phone, but the operator wanted to charge me over $60 just for internet (I don't want phone or cable service). I told him there were better deals on the web, and he told me that those deals are only available on the web, he couldn't offer them. So there I was, a customer willing to buy a service from a company, but its representative refused to sell it to me over the phone. I went on line and signed up there, but I was using a public WiFi and my connection broke off while I was in the midst of on-line "chatting" with a Comcast "analyst." I won't bore anyone with the rest of the story -- suffice to say that after going through three "analysts," not including the dude I spoke to on the phone, I finally found one who gave me a reasonable rate for service and "professional installment," which I don't want or need. Anyway, it's done. A small, local ISP is the way to go. Here on the outskirts of the imperial capital, though, all we get to choose between are megalithic cable company Comcast and megalithic phone company Verizon. DSL is a bit cheaper, but Verizon wants to tear up your front yard and the adjoining street to lay fiber-optic cable in order to install it. Comcast — mirabile dictu! — seemed like less hassle. But it still wasn’t easy: I tried to sign up over the phone, but the operator wanted to charge me over $60 just for internet (I don’t want phone or cable service). I told him there were better deals on the web, and he told me that those deals are only available on the web, he couldn’t offer them. So there I was, a customer willing to buy a service from a company, but its representative refused to sell it to me over the phone. I went on line and signed up there, but I was using a public WiFi and my connection broke off while I was in the midst of on-line “chatting” with a Comcast “analyst.” I won’t bore anyone with the rest of the story — suffice to say that after going through three “analysts,” not including the dude I spoke to on the phone, I finally found one who gave me a reasonable rate for service and “professional installment,” which I don’t want or need. Anyway, it’s done.

]]> By: Scott Lahti http://toryanarchist.com/2008/07/19/vacation-is-a-time-to-blog/#comment-1915 Scott Lahti Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:57:32 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=659#comment-1915 Whoops - change "Fedexed cable modem" to "Fedexed DSL modem": [after Justin Wilson] we're not lettin' the cable folks have any of *this*... DSL.* *Harrigan, that's me! Whoops - change “Fedexed cable modem” to “Fedexed DSL modem”: [after Justin Wilson] we’re not lettin’ the cable folks have any of *this*…

DSL.*

*Harrigan, that’s me!

]]> By: Scott Lahti http://toryanarchist.com/2008/07/19/vacation-is-a-time-to-blog/#comment-1914 Scott Lahti Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:49:28 +0000 http://toryanarchist.com/?p=659#comment-1914 In moving to my apartment in Brunswick, Maine, early this month, I had a choice between cable internet and DSL service through a local phone company/ISP, [GWI - Great Works Internet], and chose the latter, the cheaper of the two, made cheaper still by ten dollars monthly if I took, for $9.95 monthly, its basic landline phone service (which I use only residually; I also choose to remain cellphone-free, and keep my gasoline budget to c. $20 monthly). I also managed to cancel a planned install visit by a tech chap, and save on that chunk of change, by installing the Fedexed cable modem myself, with the instructions enclosed, in about one minute of child's play. So, to cheapies like me with the option of cable v DSL - and no desire whatever for cable TV - I'd suggest looking into DSL ASAP, and keep those Jacksons in your wallet. DSL. In moving to my apartment in Brunswick, Maine, early this month, I had a choice between cable internet and DSL service through a local phone company/ISP, [GWI - Great Works Internet], and chose the latter, the cheaper of the two, made cheaper still by ten dollars monthly if I took, for $9.95 monthly, its basic landline phone service (which I use only residually; I also choose to remain cellphone-free, and keep my gasoline budget to c. $20 monthly).

I also managed to cancel a planned install visit by a tech chap, and save on that chunk of change, by installing the Fedexed cable modem myself, with the instructions enclosed, in about one minute of child’s play.

So, to cheapies like me with the option of cable v DSL - and no desire whatever for cable TV - I’d suggest looking into DSL ASAP, and keep those Jacksons in your wallet.

DSL.

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