James Chamberlin

I’ve had my own modem for quite some time. My ISP, Charter, has insisted on charging monthly fees so I opted to buy my own and save money in the long run. I got a letter offering a free modem a few months ago. The documentation said there would be no monthly fees. So I […]

I was pretty disappointed today when I noticed Roboform, my favorite password manager, didn’t work anymore when Firefox updated itself today. The toolbar disappeared. Damn! Now it looks like I’ll have to use my installation of Chrome in the meantime. I’m not that big of a fan of Chrome. Firefox became my favorite browser years […]

Well it’s been an interesting day. Going through the Charter Escalation Team has proven promising. The local Charter supervisor contacted me and assured me the problem has likely been taken care of. My cable has been good for the last half and hour so we’ll see how it goes. The promising piece of news is […]

I really didn’t expect there to be a second edition to my Charter to the Rescue? post, but things haven’t been going well with my cable. The problem with my cable signal has deteriorated even further. It’s down almost all day now. It used to be for a few hours. Now it’s down for at […]

I’ve had quite a time lately with my cable company, Charter Communications. I’ve been battling signal problems for a few months. In February, I finally broke down and called them. They sent out a technician on February 26th to replace the line that comes from the telephone pole to the house. When he left, the […]

There aren’t very many services that I use religiously, but Google Reader has been one of them and Google has announced they will be killing off the program later this year. I was absolutely shocked by this news. I really didn’t expect Google to kill it anytime soon. I remember it took me a long […]

In perhaps the dumbest decision I’ve read about in weeks, Charter Communications has decided to get rid of its social media team and move them to phone support. As a long-time Charter subscriber (Cable TV and Internet), I’ve used their social media team to resolve a lot of issues. They do a far better job […]

I wonder how many others have an uneasy feeling over the Facebook IPO. You really can’t watch the news without hearing about Facebook. All of the news websites are plastered with photos of Mark Zuckerberg. I’ve seen a lot of trendy sites come and go and I frankly suspect Facebook will be another Myspace (or […]

One of the frustrating things about Internet usage has become the dreaded ISP bandwidth limitations. Just when they announce new, faster speeds, you also learn in the fine print about data usage limits. Some US ISPs will limit its customers to just 100GB a month before they cancel your account, leaving you high and dry. […]

I’ve had several blog entries in the past year about the differences between Intel and AMD.  I had high hopes AMD’s new Bulldozer line of chips would give Intel a run for their money.  Unfortunately, the consumers didn’t get what we all had hoped for.  Quality competition between Intel and AMD usually means in better […]