Jon Reily

When I first got into this “business” my friend and I were using a computer that his mom had brought home from work while she was on leave. It was a Compaq portable much like this one:

It had with it a 300 baud modem like the ones from War Games, much like this one:

It would take about an hour to download a 1 megabyte file with this contraption. We thought we were on the cutting edge of technology.

This evening, just for fun, I did a speed test on my internet connection. Details are below, but for those of you who are not tech geeks, I’ll translate. With that connection speed, I’m downloading at about 2.5 megabytes per minute. That’s a far cry from the “old” days of 1 megabyte per hour, and that’s really cool.

Can’t wait to see what I’m writing about in ten years, or where I’ll be writing it.

Mr. Crowns, Tijuana - 1987

The funny part? I still have those sunglasses.

Why does everything have to have corn syrup in it? My “whole grain bread” has it for God’s sake! Seriously. Are we really that bad that bread has to be sweet? /sigh

Day seven of the fast and so far so good. I deleted all of my news bookmarks and even went so far as to hide the news application on the BlackBerry. I was a little tempted this weekend while playing with my new iPod Touch (which I love, I might add), but have been strong.

I don’t know if I would go as far as to say that I feel better, but I do feel…lighter. I don’t feel as weighed down as I normally would.

So, so far, so good!