By Jan Dembowski on February 24, 2010
Really need to admire the Auto-Tune the news videos
I would be really cool if they got Katie Couric to actually be on these videos.
Posted in Cool, Humor | Tagged Auto Tune
By Jan Dembowski on January 24, 2010
I’m not fully awake but saw this via Reddit.
Very cool and excellent landing.
Posted in Cool, Geek | Tagged SR-71, youtube
By Jan Dembowski on December 26, 2009
Sometime you do find fun things on Reddit.
Yesterday was fun as the family did the Christmas day trip to my brother’s house. We had a great time but I’m coming down with a serious nose cold. I think I only got two hours of sleep last night. Good thing I’m off all next week, I’d [...]
Posted in Cool, Geek | Tagged rocket, Saturn V, youtube
By Jan Dembowski on November 30, 2009
Jane Wells wrote a nice thank you to the WordPress support volunteers. I’m listed among the “Generally active volunteers“. Coool. Intimidating that Whooami has been involved in (a little arithmetic here…) 10,417 threads!
Posted in Asides, Cool, Geek | Tagged WordPress
By Jan Dembowski on November 8, 2009
I purchased my Nikon D300s for a simple reason: I was sold on the D300 and I’m a stickler for getting the current model. I’ve been very satisfied with it.
Now Canon has come out with the 7D which lines up directly against the D300s. DPReview has a really good in-depth write-up of the Canon 7D. [...]
Posted in Cool, Photo | Tagged Canon, Nikon, photography
By Jan Dembowski on October 28, 2009
That was easy. I ordered Vonage yesterday and my V-Portal arrived today.
All I did was plug the Internet port into my FIOS router and my wireless phone into the phone jack. Once it acquired an IP address, it downloaded a firmware update and rebooted. That was it and I was off and running.
Posted in Cool, Geek | Tagged phone, VoIP, Vonage
By Jan Dembowski on October 27, 2009
Before I converted to FIOS, my Optimum Triple Play came with a phone line via the cable modem. I had the regular house line with Verizon and a home office line with Cablevision.
I used that line strictly for work. It was the number that the NOC would call in the middle of the night when [...]
Posted in Cool, Geek | Tagged phone, VoIP, Vonage
By Jan Dembowski on October 20, 2009
A Verizon tech came out yesterday morning and replaced a splitter on my cables. Poof! The TV guide is now working. I’ve had it for less than a day but the wiz bang factor is making the service look great.
Posted in Asides, Cool
By Jan Dembowski on October 18, 2009
My Internet and TV viewing works well but for some reason the guide data is not being loaded onto the set top boxes. While I am waiting for the (hopefully) Monday morning fix to my TV guide data, here is what you get with FIOS.
1. A weather sealed FIOS box that performs the hand off [...]
Posted in Cool, Geek | Tagged FIOS, Verizon
By Jan Dembowski on October 17, 2009
The phone is flawless and the Internet connection is amazing. See the SPEEDTEST.NET results to the right.
I just have a small problem with my digital TV service. At the moment I have no picture at all. Earlier I had picture and all my channels but I did not have the channel guide. An hour later, [...]
Posted in Cool, Geek | Tagged FIOS, Verizon
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