Media Events

[personal]

On the weekend, I ordered an upgrade from dialup to high speed internet access with my ISP. Many will respond to this with "you mean you didn't have high speed before?" or "it's about bloody time!" Well, I never really needed it. Although there was that one time I downloaded the entire Debian binary distribution over the modem, and burned my own install CDs. That was more of a fun little exercise in scripting. Really.

In any case, my web activity and my bandwidth has been increasing, with this blog, for instance, and especially since I started using Flickr.

But the other half of this change is going to be the cancellation of my cable TV service. I think it was a couple of months ago I realized just how much television was tending to suck up my time, and I wasn't even enjoying the programming very much. A small part of this was a direct result of The Learning Channel being completely overrun with home improvement reality shows (although I have to admit that Paige Davis is one heck of a charming woman).

Whoa! By gigantic coincidence, it looks like it's just been announced today that she's leaving the show! Well, there you go. I have yet one less reason to watch TV now. That's all right, I think her talents would be better applied elsewhere, anyway.

So aside from non-cable television, I'm planning on getting my video media over the internet from now on! We'll have to see how that goes.

And finally, the newspaper. These days, I'm getting my news from the radio and the web. To me, the newspaper is no longer worth the paper it's printed on, and I only subscribe to the weekend editions, too. So I'm likely going to cancel that as well.

We'll see if I suffer any withdrawal symptoms...