fractalnavel

broadband, that is.  check this out:

nice site, by the way, if more than a bit bloated.  and i swear they have some sort of memory leak there...

anyway, the story gets more interesting when you look at the comparisons they have available:

eh, downloads, not so bad.  but according to the site, the top isps in the world are offering more than three times this now.

now for the uploads:

now i feel cheated.  friggin' roadrunner doesn't even match up to the pathetic state average, much less national or international.  and the top isps ?  near symmetric speeds.

and to think i pay nearly $50 a month for this joke.  there are other places getting twice the speed for half the price.  so much for free market systems in this part of the world.  this also ilustrates the corporate control over p2p.  want to publish here ?  well, we'll throttle you.  don't like it ?  then go to one of the big corporate hosting sites, or buy our premium services.

yet again, so much for independent voices, or "free" speech.

the human kind.  over the last few weeks we've lost a couple of oldsters in the extended family, my sister-in-law's grandparents in grand rapids.  they got a very brief mention in this post.  condolences to everyone.

geez, i'm pushing fifty (!) myself.  jeep is pushing fifteen. 

the cycles of life keep returning, same cast, different roles.  until the final call.