Philips and Verizon

Just found out what Verizon is up to in my neighborhood. Actually, they knocked out my phone service over the weekend but since I wasn't home it didn't matter much. I knew they are running Fiber Optics into the neighborhoods, but I didn't know what the service is actually going to be like. Thanks to Slashdot I now know:

Verizon Taking FTTP Installation Orders

The fiber optics are going to come all the was to the house, I think. We're talking speeds of up to 30Mbps down and 5Mbps up (also 15/2 and 5/2). The pricing is better than I'm paying for Comcast (3Mbps/256K). I've been mad at Verizon in the past, but if they do this all is forgiven!

Also on the techie front, I bought a new toy yesterday! It is a DVD player by Philips that not only plays DVDs, but also MP3 CDs, JPEG Slideshows, AND (the cool part) Divx/MPEG4,2,1 video files burned to either DVD-R or CDR! Its what I've been waiting for! All that money I've burned on PlayStation 2 Media Players, a TV with a fancy port I didn't need, all solved by a $70 DVD player. I just hope it keeps working because I'm in hog heaven right now!

Check it out:

Philips DVP642/17 DVD Player

Carroll Game Update

They won, big time!

Carroll High School on ESPN2

No this is not a misprint. Carroll High School (#1 in the State and in the NATION for 5A schools) is now playing against Denton Ryan on ESPN2!! They are now losing 13-10 and I am hoping that this will change. One thing that would make my Mom happy is that they mentioned (and showed) THE BAND! The ESPN2 guy was surpised about how many members were in the band (around 345 people now) saying that his graduating class was 275. But they are also amazed that 11,000 people are at this sold out game.

Getting season tickets next year....


Bought The Sims 2 about 2 weeks ago...