The kind folks over at Comcast Digital installed the internetz at my apartment today.
For $33/month I could get 6mbs or for $43/month 16mbs. I chose the faster connection on a six-month basis. Wonder how much they will be charging in six months.
Anyway, the cable dude - Jerry - took me to a site called Speakeasy.net
Click on the server closest to your city and figure out how fast you can download and how quickly you can upload from your computer.
Here’s my results as recorded from my MacBook Pro wirelessly connected to my Time Capsule:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 21077 kbps (2634.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3078 kbps (384.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Pretty good if you ask me!
1 day ago
Heading to a Social Media Party/Luncheon thingee around noon. I think its going to be in some ghetto part of SF, but we’ll have to wait and see about that.
Yoono is a sponsor of it.
Later tonight Laura Tolby will be hosting a San Francisco MediaBistro Party at 111 Minna Street. There are spaces left apparently so, you can sign up through that link above.
Is 111 Minna Street the default location for anything cool/tech related in SF?
I think Laura is single and I know she is worth a couple mill, since she sold out to Alan Meckler at Jupiter Media. Is she a cougar? Too old for me? I don’t know. Lets find out.
4 days ago
I was cruising through Craigslist the other week when I saw an ad for Brand Ambassadors or something like that for a new computer called Cherrypal.
Of course when we are discussing brands, I know that I am a brand unto myself. Maybe not the best brand, but most people do not associate Jerry Yang, Enron or WorldCom to my likeness, so I am a good choice.
Cherrypal has made an eco-friendly computer with some awesome cloud computing capabilities (so I have read in press releases). For their OS they have shunned both Windows and Apple, in favor of I think Linux (they haven’t told me yet). But I do know that instead of a massive hard drive they will be depending on the “grid” to supply memory capabilities, instead relying on 5-15 GBs of space built into the computer itself, with additional capacity available via the interwebz.
Next week I hope to be receiving this computer and begin using it as my home desktop. For the last few years I have been all about the laptop. I love my MacBook Pro, but there might be space in my heart for a non-Apple desktop too.
To be determined…
4 days ago
