Well, back to work today. I landed a job telecommuting from home. Will certainly make life interesting as it changes my life again.

Fortunately, my life is ready to get started. Took most of a year, but I did get a lot done. We’ve relocated, set up the house and put everything in place. Spring has arrived after a long winter and we’re ready to move ahead. Should finally get back to my blog on a regular basis, if all things are equal.

All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte

I’ve never tracked my download usage, but I know I don’t go anywhere near these limits.  Yet.  But that could change as IPTV comes on board.  I would kill to go to an IPTV option today.  Being able to drop my stupid cable subscription for a fiber optic bandwidth to one box will be nice in the near future.

However, this is a bit scary.  What do you do when you reach the end of the bytes on the 26th of the month?  Start rationing?  Start hopping on your neighbor’s unprotected wireless?

But, when we were in Romania over the Holidays, one of my wife’s friends is an expert in the telecom industry and said the Net will start having major bandwidth problems in the next three years.  Mostly due to increasing access by the growing number of people on the Net but exacerbated by the individuals who are downloading video and will be moving to downloading hi-def fairly soon.  Net Neutrality is great, but you can bet the ISPs will use this as a way to try to bypass any bans by the government.

photodrop

Great app which allows you to create your own droplets.  I’ve created two so far, both for rotating an image, and they happen very quickly.  Barely any hesitation other than the splash screen warning you about messing with the original of an image.  Certainly faster than the PhotoShop droplets I’ve worked with in the past though the newer version of Pshop may have solved that issue without a requirement to load the full Pshop engine to do the work.

KeePassX

The move to Canada has been an operation in information overflow. I started using KeePassX last summer, but it got lost in the shuffle. Now that Ana and I are both using the Mac for home items, I think we can go to keeping KeePassX on the desktop and all of our data inside.

Well, still no quick solution to the mySQL problems.  The second export/import worked better and simplified the problem.  Probably need to dig deep into the data to fix this, but it will have to wait while some other projects are roasting away towards being done.

I’ve moved my site from one host to another.  Still having problems I haven’t had time to repair.  Looks like the site will be down until the New Year.  If you’re reading this, please be patient and have a Happy Holiday season.

Schoolhouse 2 | The homework manager for Mac.

Nice looking software manager for students.  Though, at first glance, it looks exactly like iGTD.  The classcast thing looks interesting, though I wonder who else would use it.  But maybe faculty at schools with limited access to content management systems would benefit from this.

Best Life Magazine: Health & Fitness: Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases

How often do you see a list of 8 foods you should eat every day and each of them is tasty.  Well, except for the walnuts.  Not big on walnuts since we used to collect and crack them when I was a kid.  I think a quarter of my weight must be made from walnuts I cracked and ate in my youth.

Still, everything else looks good.  I’m eating yogurt and oats every day.  Though I’m only getting the oats because every loaf of bread on Toronto seems to be full-grain and better than the white bread we had in the States.

Don’t know if you are, but the first play of the season just started with Manning to Addai and incomplete.  And Addai is one of my key players and isn’t getting up.  Just my luck.  But I’m taking the night off.  I had a job interview today and finished up most of the stuff I needed to do for the new house.  So, I’m sitting here playing a networked version of Axis and Allies (TripleA - http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki) with my friend John C back in Va.  Sometimes you just need a night off to chill and this is one of the few I’ve had lately.

Braille CDRs: They Just Now Thought of This? - Gizmodo

I thought about this years ago as a passing thought (not claiming much there, the idea is pretty obvious) and just figured someone would create a printable which would stamp on braille.  (You know, I still don’t know if they make those).  But kudos to someone for getting it to print directly to the disk.  Much less chance of mixing up labels.  I do that every so often and it is a pain getting them straight and I am blessed with good vision.