First, the good!

I'm officially won over on OpenDNS. I performed a multitude of tests on Demon and Asura to see how page loads fared in both safari and firefox, then switched over my router to use the OpenDNS servers. (check out how on their website, opendns.com). Same pages, everything is a bit quicker, but some sites (the oh so evil myspace, for example) were dramatically faster in loading. For those non-technicals, DNS is the Domain Name System. your ISP usually has servers setup that perform DNS functions (taking myspace.com and converting it to 216.178.38.116 so the routers know what the hell your talking about, and vies-versa) OpenDNS claims their servers are smarter and faster than what your ISP is running, and after poking a bit, I believe them. Try it out for yourself.


Bad news...
Time warner screwed me over again. 10 Days after they failed to show up for my last repair call to fix my then 2 week old digital signal/fried box problems, they failed to show up for the rescheduled service call. Once it became apparent last night that they were not going to show up (again) I called into customer service and got the usual run around. wonderful. This morning I took the Consumerists advice, and executed an Executive Email Bomb, sending my nearly 4 week old tale of lies, damned lies and television to some higher-up CEO types for NEO. we'll see how that works out.