For all the cows….

Ok, the title has nothing to do with the article, i am listening to “for all the cows” by the foo fighters as i write this, i was drawing a blank for a title haha. Any way onto the business of the day. I recently found an amazing solution to a problem I have had forever. I live in the middle of nowhere, and no provider has good reliable cell phone service, we had just about every provider, Alltel, Cingular, Sprint, Verizon. No service in our black hole of a house. So we looked around and found T-Mobile’s Hotspot@home service. Its an interesting concept really, take a Wireless Network (Using either your standard router, or the special T-Mobile Router, but more on this later in the post) So we did our research, and the pricing on it, and decided to go for it. It started with my brother getting his phone. He got a Samsung Katalyst, which is a nice phone (considering he got it for free, sale baby) anyway, we tested it out at home using our standard WRT54GS router. Worked great, so i was getting excited, i decided i was gonna get a Blackberry Curve 8320, just about the sexiest phone ever (next to the iphone) Anyway, the time came, and i got my Blackberry, to put it lightly, I LOVE MY BLACKBERRY! I had a Razr on Verizon, and i could not use it all day without having to charge it at least once, and i charge it over night. The Blackberry can go 3 days of heavy use without dying. I can carry on a 9 minute convo with adam, and use like no battery, that would have killed my razr. So we love it, and about the router, is it necassary to buy the T-Mobile router? The phones worked fine with the WRT54GS we already had, but the attraction to the T-Router was the fact that it was free after Rebates! Woot! but in technical terms, it supposedly sets phone traffic before all other traffic, and it does a good job, although, i do notice some voice quality issues when watching streaming video/downloading itunes, which use up all of our 1.5mb/s (megabit, not megabyte as i recently found out, curse u embarq) anyway, but for the most part, never had a dropped call on it, good coverage inside and a bit outside the house, so i’m very satisfied.

Well now that my fingers are tired, i’m gonna keep typing.  I recently found out that our school technology director, Tom Sextro has a podcast on itunes that he keeps updated quite often.  I subscribed and downloaded all of them (like 80!) and listened to a majority of them tonight, he has some really good tips for schools on tech, I have recently come to know him more personally, and he really does know his crap, if u wanna check out the podcast, the link is right here its good stuff, really.  It really made me wanna create my own podcast, i love podcasts so much, i have 15GB of them on my Powermac, i love revision3 ‘casts, Tekzilla is like the coolest show ever (especially since Veronica Belmont is the new host, oh foxey lady) ANYWAY I don’t really think its that hard to make a podcast, Tom actually has a podcast with info on making podcasts, seems interesting, i hear u need a lot of space.  I got that covered, i have a basically blank 120GB HD in my PowerMac which should serve the purpose fine, i need to look into it.  I’m thinking like a 10-15 video cast, with random tech stuff, mainly mac, but cover some windows stuff to.

And on another note, completely non tech related, The Office is FINALLY back to TV (i hope ur as thrilled as i am) The Dinner Party was a pretty good episode, personally i still have “That one night” by “The Hunted” stuck in my head: You took me by the hand, made me a man, that one night (one night) you made everything all right……. Anyway, then this week we had Chair Model, which had some good lines, my personal favorite was Michael towards Oscar “hello oscar meyer weiner lover” and also Creed: “when michael gets a new chair, pam gets his old one, and then i get pams old one, that makes 2, now only one more” quite a hilarious moment for all the boys and girls.  I hope the rest of the season goes as well, i have a feeling it will end with Jim proposing to Pam, and then the season is over, grr curse u NBC.

Well thats a long post for tonight, i hope u enjoyed it, please comment on this, if u learned something, want me to rant/rave about something else, or just tell me how awesome i am. Later.