I don’t know about everyone else, but Firefox 3.5 has been much slower for me than 3.0…

I like Firefox but it’s not as fast as it used to be. This is a comprehensive, safe guide to optimizing Firefox 3.5 for speedy browsing. For each suggestion, your mileage may vary.

The Ultimate Guide To Speeding Up Firefox 3.5

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Maybe there’s some benefit to being a night owl…

Early birds may get the best worms—or at least the best garage sale deals—but they also tire out more quickly than night owls do.

Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late

It took SEVEN YEARS!

Hope people don’t have to replace all that pre-802.11n gear they bought. 🙁

The IEEE Standards Board has formally ratified the 802.11n standard (802.11n-2009, to be extraordinarily specific). It took seven years and involved 400 members from 20 countries. Somebody deserves a vacation.

IEEE Ratifies 802.11n

Poke, poke, poke… Poke, poke, poke… 😀

We don’t have Fios in Houston – but I’ll take 100meg Cable service!

Comcast has dropped us a line to note they’ve launched 100 Mbps broadband service in the Twin Cities market.

Comcast Offers 100Mbps

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I keep telling everyone that the formula for the right sized HDTV for your room is – the viewing distance divided by two, and that number is the correct diagonal size of the TV…

Perhaps this video from the New York Times will help… 🙂

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I’m glad SOMEONE finally got it right… yay for BackBlaze! 😀

At Backblaze, we provide unlimited storage to our customers for only $5 per month, so we had to figure out how to store hundreds of petabytes of customer data in a reliable, scalable way—and keep our costs low. After looking at several overpriced commercial solutions, we decided to build our own custom Backblaze Storage Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867.

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

From the San Antonio Express News:

Many of those students stay in San Antonio and contribute to the city’s intellectual and economic base. For example, Dirk Elmendorf, Patrick Condon and Richard Yoo founded Web hosting company Rackspace in 1998. Trinity’s 700 employees also contribute $25 million to the local economy.

Trinity tops goal of raising $200 million

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The amount of time taken to produce this video must have been tremendous – wow!

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I watched this and wondered “what could possibly go wrong?”… and man, was I rewarded for my patience… 😀

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This is really cool, and it’ll save you a ton of dough over the commerical Wi-Spy:

DIY-Spy: a homebrew 2.4GHz wi-fi spectrum analyzer

This guy managed to make an entire pasta meal from scratch in his hotel room with only tools he can find in his room… amazing:

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