hiatus
temporary hiatus. re-thinking the role of this blog.
plus internet at my new place is ridiculously expensive – i only have the ‘choice’ of comcast and it costs a whopping $60 bucks a month (modem rental excluded!). hello, i thought i live in the US, the paradigm of a free market system? can we get some competition in the last mile market, please? i paid these prices back in 1996 in amsterdam when cable broadband was brand new, a novelty and a premium.
so instead of paying comcast sixty bucks, my friend suggested i might as well go to the cafe around the door everyday and get a cup of tea for two bucks, and enjoy the free wifi. less convenient, but hey, i get a cup of tea for it. plus 30 times 2 (e.g. every day a month) equals exactly 60 (and a cup of tea isn’t even two bucks).
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January 29th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Hey Lok,
Hoe gaat ie? Ik lees en zie dat je een nieuwe woning hebt. Gefeliciteerd! Waar ben je nu eigenlijk? Met ons gaat het goed. De kleine kan nu inmiddels rennen en lopen en heeft ook zijn eigen leventje.
Als papa en mama naar het werk gaan, heeft hij zijn eigen vriendjes en vriendinnetjes op de creche.
Keep in touch!! Groetjes, Marni
January 31st, 2007 at 12:16 pm
which tea place? the green one? i swung by it on the way out the other day… pretty nifty. oh wait. but i think their tea is more than two bucks. hehe…
i don’t know what is a ‘reasonable’ price for service anymore. i keep expecting things to be cheaper… like cell phone service, internet service, cable service. but perhaps because we still rely so much on ‘em.
see u soon la…
March 16th, 2007 at 10:39 am
verizon is now offering wha seems to be a fiber-optic-based connection for 29.99 a month … if you can get verizon and you don’t have the comcast monopoly in your area.