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It’s been a little sobering looking at Internet usage, over the last 3 years, via my current Broadband ISP. I currently have an ADSL2+ connection, that hums along with an (on average) connection speed of 13mbits/sec (downstream) and 2.4mbits/sec (upstream).

That translates to real world download speeds of 1.3mbytes per second and some 240kbytes per sec going the other way.

As can be seen by the usage snapshot¹ in the last 3 years, my consumption of ‘ether’ has increased from below 20gbytes per month, spiking over 80gb and clocks in at around 60gb on average. That’s a three fold increase in as many years!

With the absolute plethora of technologies online, such as twitter², pownce³, youtube, nasa tv and so on (not to mention a little p2p action care of joost) has lead to a bit of a bender in usage.

The reality is, that shows no sign of diminishing and it’s an increasingly expensive exercise as those outside of the good old US of A have to pay to get your data, here. And the cost for my addiction? Currently sitting at $139 per month.

Have you looked at your usage pattern lately?

1. click image to view (↩)
2. which, granted, is light weight (↩)
3. a little less so, with file transfers (↩)

A pretty fly web 2.0 way to present your favicon.ico — the default logo presented in your web browser of choice, next to any one URI. Discovered via a
my.9rules Notes
post.
Not entirely convinced the purpose is at all earth-shattering or life changing.. but it is an undeniably cool applet.

This public service announcement brought to you by the letters A, I and the number 4:
In these dark times you can never be too careful that’s why we at the Airbag Department of Security created a Blog Advisory System so that Website Masters can alert their users to the threat condition of words being used. […]

This has been pin-balling around the internets for a few days now - and succinctly put, suggests that we should all adhere to a blogger’s equivalent of the usual politically correct and chemically castrated system commonly referred to as the code of conduct.

The same morally restrictive and constrained concept as used in many places due to the moronic influences of the minority of folks who can’t help but prove that evolution isn’t without it’s flaws.

It all started way back when Tim O’Reilly proposed a knee-jerk peace-love-harmony reaction to a bunch of retarded misfits mouthing off (in part) when Kathy Sierra decided to point out that being an absolute dick-head isn’t cool.

Just in case the naysayers’ amongst us still think
twitter’s star has already risen and fallen, may I present the results of what happens when one posts a link to one’s own blog:

As you can see - there’s been quite the burst of traffic in the last 48 hours, much of it as a result […]

I am Steve, hear me roar.

The ‘cold-war’ between Ballmer and the Open Source movement that has raged on and on and on, continues to escalate as the “Ballmer rhetoric engine” version 2.0 picks up speed.