July 26th, 2005

Castaway! (No not on an island)

As of yesterday…I am officially cast free! The doctor was pleasantly surprised that the bone had healed so fast, as it is normally 6-8 weeks, and mine was 5. It was so nice to take a normal shower and to go to the gyum without having to worry about getting it wet!

July 18th, 2005

Comcast Update

Update 1:
Comcast has there spam filtering done by a 3rd party and the mail filter has been fixed

Update 2
Finally…Comedy Central will no longer be sharing a space with CourtTV as of 8/10! I really thought it was ridiculous that with all of these digital cable channels that any 2 networks have to share. My poor TiVo has recorded CourtTV more than once when it thought it was recording Comedy Central. And no price increase! (I would get SBC | Dish if my landlord would allow it though…)

July 15th, 2005

Dump Comcast!

Saw this on americablog.org

Fellow blogger also named Brad discovers that Comcast is blocking all email from afterdowningstreet.org

…COMCAST CONTACT INFO…
- Comcast, Executive Offices: 215-665-1700
- Comcast, Abused Department: 856-317-7272 Ext 1 (and leave a message)
- To cancel Comcast Internet Service, call 800-COMCAST or 888-405-9200, press 1 for English, 4 to drop Comcast, and 2 to choose specifcy Internet service (as opposed to cable).
- To contact Comcast and its Officers via Email, click here.

If you would like reliable internet from SBC for $14.95/month (12 months) go to sbc.com and use referral code CH8694 :)

July 13th, 2005

Tell the President to Come Clean!

From and email received from Howard Dean, chairman of the DNC :

“Politics drove someone in the White House to do a treacherous, potentially criminal thing: a senior administration official leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative. They endangered the agent’s life and compromised our national security in a time of war.

Here’s what former president George H.W. Bush said about that kind of crime: “Even though I’m a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors.” That’s from a speech on April 26, 1999.

I agree. But as it became clear this week that Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove is a subject of the criminal investigation into the leak, the second Bush administration has gone silent. And its operatives have launched a cover-up and smear campaign against anyone raising questions.

This is bigger than politics — every American should agree that this administration needs to come clean immediately about this leak, and any White House official’s role in it. The only way to pressure this administration is to show that Americans will not tolerate this — and that every American regardless of party will unite and publicly demand that they come clean:

http://www.democrats.org/comeclean ”

July 6th, 2005

Podcasts going mainstream

I have been listening to Podcasts since October. Now with the new version of iTunes, podcasting is going mainstream. I listen toYeast Radio, Distorted View, and the Daily Source Code reguarly.

July 1st, 2005

Supreme Court: What You Can Do RIGHT NOW

Whatever happens with the Supreme Court nomination battle that is about to ensue, it’s going to happen fast. Here are some things you can do right now: (thanks to Daily Kos)

* If you have a cell phone, sign up for People at the American Way’s Mass Immediate Response site. This way, you’ll be able to receive text message action items instantly as events break. (If you signed up during the nuclear option fight, you’ll need to re-sign up.)

* Also sign up with the Save the Court, another PFAW website devoted specifically to this issue.

* Recruit friends and family members to the cause.

* Write to the President, telling him he should choose a consensus candidate to replace O’Connor.

* Contact your Senators to tell them the same thing.

* Sign MoveOn’s “Protect Our Rights” petition.

* Contact members of the media and tell them you think Bush should nominate a consensus candidate. PLEASE be polite, be brief (200 words or less), and don’t do copy-and-paste jobs - put things in your own words.

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