Minneapolis Getting Comcast Love

Comcast logo with red circular C icon and black lowercase text reading comcast

This rolled by in my newsfeed a few days ago and caught my eye. The New York Times had a short piece on Minneapolis getting some new high-speed options from Comcast. I found the release on Comcast’s website about it as well.

Comcast is rolling out this new DOCSIS 3.0 technology and it promises to give us 50 megabit download speeds. That’s a whopping 10x on what I get now on a regular basis. The service is about 2.5x as expensive as well, but I’d seriously consider the upgrade.

I checked out my service area and this isn’t an option for me yet. Does anyone see this as an option yet? Supposedly it’s available now.

Funny that using OS X still makes me so much happier than any other OS I use on a regular basis.

Mac Pro going into the shop for diagnostics and repair. Apple TV being swapped today.

My computers are turning on me and its ugly!

Wow - if you “Restore to Factory Defaults” an original Apple TV you are left with v 1.0 on it. Eek…

Still thinking about Into the Wild from last night. What a movie. Think I need to read the book.

Movie poster for Into the Wild directed by Sean Penn showing a young man sitting atop an abandoned bus numbered 142

Anyone know if you can change Time Machine in Leopard to run while on battery power? Only running when plugged in is screwing me up.

Ugh – finally gave up and made an appointment for my Mac Pro. This has to be a hardware issue.

Good Luck to Hector in Ironman Arizona

Ford Ironman Arizona Tempe triathlon event logo

My brother-in-law Hector is racing in Ironman Arizona this weekend!

On Sunday morning he is going to do the epic 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and 26.2 mile run. It’s a pretty amazing feat, and it’s his 2nd Ironman (he did Ironman Wisconsin last year).

His bib number is 297 and you can follow his progress yourself at Ironman Live.

Hector’s put in countless hours of training, and having one Ironman under his belt is no longer a rookie to the race. I expect he’s going to do awesome.

Good luck Hec! Rock it!

Update: Hector just finished the Arizona Ironman. He put in an awesome time of 10:57:50 and placed 191st position overall. Awesome job dude! I’ll add a link here to his post-race write-up in a few days.

CSSEdit just saved me major pain and anguish. Happy.