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Layman Report: True FREE Simple File Sharing!

If you’re anything like my parents, the title of this post probably confuses you, or causes you to feel uncomfortable (no offense). It’s okay, I’m not expecting the average layman to understand the true impact of this, because it’s a dirty, messy, and potentially illegal method of sharing things with others. A practice that has kept to the shadows of the internet, and those who where born near the turn of the millennium (1975-current day). Learn what all the hubub has been about, what the current situation is like, and why two new services called BitTorrent Sync and SoShare may be shaking things up in the foreseeable future.
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Rain Tax got ya down? Find relief – Part 1

Hey, have you heard the news? Someone thought we didn’t have enough taxes… so now there is an impending Maryland rain tax of doom! “The rate is expected to start at $100 a year for most homeowners, although that could rise” — some other website (screw em). I was immediately annoyed/frustrated/infuriated/befuddled by news of this tax, and was quick to anger, as I’m sure the rest of the state was. Then I took a minute to cool off, and asked myself… why are they doing this… and why the hell don’t any of these articles go in to detail about how to find relief from this tax? So here’s my attempt….
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New look, better spam…

Hotmail isn’t the only site in town that is changing it’s look and feel. TheParaverse is undergoing some modifications as well. Not sure if it’s going to stay like this permenantly, but this is the latest look of the site. The old layout was too laggy, and wasn’t very mobile friendly. The new layout should look good no matter how you look at it. Colors, images, etc are still subject to change, but so far we like the layout in general.

In addition to just looking completely different, posts should show up on Facebook under our name, rather than some 3rd party blog syndication network. You should also be able to comment on posts via your Facebook account now as well. If you likey, click Like!

Get ready for some broader broadband!

Demand for broadband internet is at an all time high, and the days of dialup are far behind us (for the most part). This giant map below shows just how widespread it is these days (Aww, poor Alaska!). In general, the average speeds that a normal consumer is willing to dish out cash for, is somewhere between 1mbps and 50mbps. Certainly nothing to gawk at, when compared to the blistering 0.054mbps that could be achieved over dialup (assuming your phone line wasn’t garbage, and your ISP was able to handle speeds that incredibly fast…). Now there’s some movement to make current squabbling between a few measly mbps seem almost as silly as the squabbling between the 28.8k and 56k offerings of dialup…

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The only time now, is party time, are we clear?

Recently I was sent a link to an article about the holographic principle, which is a theory that attempts to explain how our universe is actually a 3D holographic projection of a 2D surface. It seems to somewhat line up with some of the nonsense I have in my head, and I found the article interesting, though lacking some detail, it did job of explaining everything on a level that is relatively easy to comprehend (OR… I completely misinterpreted the entire thing… but let’s pretend I’m awesome instead).

Somewhere muddled in the comments, was a link to this page, where a user named “photo guy” took the time to type up exactly what I thought about the concept of “time”. It’s almost like the guy reached in to my head grabbed my wiggly brain thoughts, googled them for some better vocabulary and quotes, and then typed them up. So below is a straight up copy and paste of his post: Read more

Going Green: Constellation Energy

ATTENTION ALL Maryland BG&E CUSTOMERS!!!! If you are anything like me, you are too lazy/scared/confused/uninterested in your energy to actually do anything about it. You agree that green is good, and you’d just love to go green if only (insert absolute horse shit excuse here). Of course you know damn well that you haven’t even done so much as do a simple google search on the topic (clicking links that someone sent you doesn’t count, especially if you only skimmed the article), and are just content to drift about listlessly in the energy wasteland, just going with whatever your power company gives you without a second thought. There’s more important stuff to worry about, like which way to load the new roll of toilet paper, clockwise or counter clockwise?

Well congrats everyone! You managed to click a link that took you to my website, and I’m going to make switching to green power a little easier for you. I know, I know, you thought there’d be something way more awesome to look at on my site, and you’re right, it’s here. I was recently sent off on a grand adventure, (I got bored and clicked some links in an article I was reading somewhere) and have found a very simple solution that even the lazy can enjoy! That’s right! I didn’t lose a single pound while switching! So here’s the deal, you can keep BG&E, but switch your power supply to Constellation Energy in about 5 minutes. You will be keeping BG&E as the folks who deliver the power, just as they do now. All you will be changing, is where BG&E is delivering power from! I just switched to Constellation and chose to go with 100% green power from their wind farm that was recently built, saving about 5% on my power bill! You can choose from their other power offering which will save you an additional 5% when compared to BG&E, but I figured a 5% savings is enough if it’s going to be switching to 100% green power. Check it out, and remember to tell them I sent you with my referral code of 0830Q, or click on my referral link to get a $25 gift card when you sign up (I’ll get one too! awesome!).

SIGN UP NOW!

I plan on posting updates about how my experience is going, and also writing up another post about my adventure with solar panels soon. I believe that the estimated install time for solar is going to be somewhere in the range of 6 months to a year, so it’ll be a bit before I can post my complete findings, but I will try to post whatever data I have so far.

Update 5/7/2012:

Someone asked where the 100% green power option is listed on Constellation’s site. I recorded a quick video of how to get there in case you need a quick pointer:

http://screencast.com/t/RjWEhsbZ9MsG