Weekly Blog 2-16-10

this week has been a mess for me. there was so much going on i have not had a moment to breathe. first and foremost. i had to call ATT for my home internet connection and find out why the heck our internet was crap and so slow. then i asked about upgrading to U-Verse. not only for research for this class but so i could better enjoy the world through fiber optic connection XD. well long story short i was lied to on the phone *go figure* it would cost the same per month to have a 12 MB down and 3 MB up elite package for $75 but id have to pay 250 for install fees up front. i was like yea right. so I'm stuck on lame DSL ("darn" slow local-access) with 1 MB up and .3 MB down. speedtest.net confirms my wonderful connection. joy....

Next battle royal and epic endeavor was with Verizon. What a roller coaster, strap in for this one ladies and gentleman. so again more lies. and more social publicity junk. as you may know I wanted to get a droid so I could be more mobile with my computing and communication and also be more up to date with the way of the smart phone. Well according to Verizon. Neither me or anyone in my family plan can upgrade our phones until may 2011 without purchasing the phones outright for full retail value. Have you ever read the fine print for a phone without a contract? for the droid that is well over $500. This is SILLY! and to make it better I found out if I were to try to cancel my plan I would owe about the same as that, roughly $130 per each line and there are 4 lines. so I am basically stuck where I am not able to be very productive on the go.... Car computer here I come. I already have the core components the PSU, motherboard, ram , processor. I just need to make a case to fit in my car.

Ok now that I have vented back to CIT 49900:

this week, what you learned in class, well we talked more abot the proposal, and to be honest i though i would be well on my way with my smart phone talking about the joys of how we can be interconnected with fiber optics and all sorts of other neat things. but alas thoes plans fell through. the social media experiences for the week involved the above statments from ATT and Verizon. Some other really sad things were that my experiences with IT infrastructure products & services were hampered when my server i ordered a DL585 g1 with 8 cores and 16 gb of RAM came in from FED EX and was banged up bad. I will have to do an insurance clam on the product. that will be long and drawn out lucky me. for my progress on your course project, I am still getting all the details on the spisifics of the project together It is cruch time because I know my Professor wants it to him sooner than later.