Author: cosmo

This morning I had my Comcast cable modem upgraded to a business-class line. For kicks, I checked to see what my download bandwidth is. I can get a fairly consistent speed of 4+ Mbps, and a few tests peaked out above 7 Mbps. Wow. I remember when T-1 lines were “da bomb” becaues they were screaming fast… and they’re only 1.5 Mbps.

Isn’t technology wonderful?

In a delicious irony, here’s an awesome sign that warns you to watch out for… the sign.

Another interesting 2005 statistic for me is the amount of time I spent working. Since I have a timekeeping system I use to track every hour I’m at work (so I can bill clients appropriately), it’s easy to run the full year and see how things went. This year?

2,520 hours

That averages to about 48 hours per week– definitely more than I’d like to be working, but probably not unreasonable in today’s workplace. Considering the fact that I’m running four businesses, I suppose this isn’t bad at all. But hopefully 2006 will see a drop…

Well, the New Year is here and today happened to be my day of organizing stuff around the office. As such, I filed away the last of the 2005 e-mail messages and saw the total.

13,681 messages

Holy cow, I’m averaging 37 messages per day. That number continues to rise year after year, too. I suppose in a few years that’s pretty much all I’ll be doing: writing e-mail all day.

“Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.”

— George Carlin

‘Nuff said.

Too funny to pass up…

Merry Christmas to all.

Kyra lost another tooth… no, literally she lost it. Distraught that she might not get some cash from the Tooth Fairy, she wrote the following note and put it under her pillow: