• My lack of much posting activity this week, as well as the continued delay in my 2007 retrospective list, are the result of some moron hacking a number of my online accounts somehow. I’ve been playing clean-up with my online identity, including changing tons of passwords. Thankfully, the idiot didn’t get at my financial site accounts. My E-Bay and Google accounts were part of it, though, so I’ve been having fun coordinating with their support folks to get things squared away. For the record, the retard that was doing this was using the e-mail address of elee777@gmail.com when changing contact info. Here’s hoping I can help contribute to spam heading his (or her, I suppose, however unlikely) way. Anyway, I’ll resume some more posting over the weekend, now that I have things back under control.
• On the plus side, I had a business card from Comcast left on the door of the house. I called the sales guy that left it. Turns out Comcast has just launched a newer speed package in the area, featuring 16mb download speeds and 2mb upload speeds, named Blast. After signing up for the upgraded service, it took all of 15 minutes for the change to kick in. I now have some really blazing fast speed, which is tres cool. Below is a pic of my speed test I just did. I tried a couple other speed test locations, a few of which did peak out at 2mb uplink. Most stayed at the advertised 16mb, but a few went as high as the pic below would indicate.

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