Office Moves.
The official Artboredom offices are in the process of moving to a shiny new 2 bedroom apartment. We're packing up the Apple IIe super computers and refiling the floppies of my design softwarez I had strewn about. Do you know anything about floppy disks? Well floppy disks are pretty expensive...
I'm not a fan of the moving upheaval at all. But I am going to enjoy not having my desk in the freaking living room like it's been in the last 2 one bedroom apartments we've been squeezing ourselves into. I'll even have an office the new place. Of course it will double as everything else we can think of but there won't be desk in the living room.
We're giving up on the sham that is Comcast cable during the move as well. It's not that Comcast was bad, it's just that they weren't that good. I don't think I ever saw the upper end of their claimed download speeds. I'm not sure what it was i was paying for, but it frequently ran at DSL speeds. I was paying more than that though. We are instead going to give Verizon FiOS a shot as our building was one of the early adopters in the area. We're going for the 30 MB down; why not go big? We're adding the TV package as well with their DVR, which is a nice addition to the deprecated '98 Trinitron setup that I'm rocking. Maybe I'll have to drop the TV down the stairs during the move...
So I'm obviously going to share with you the wonderfully mundane details of my experiences with my new broadband connection. You don't have a choice.