Thomas Guy

TWC Fuels the Fires

Since they’re being such good sports (and Twitter is down for scheduled maintenance right now), I thought I’d go ahead and recap some of the better news appearances Time Warner Cable has made lately. I just want to take a second to state that I know that most of the good people of this companyContinue reading “TWC Fuels the Fires”

Bret and Jemaine Cameo on Drinky Crow

For the roughly 500,000 viewers who watch Adult Swim, the Drinky Crow Show offered a surprise treat for Flight of the Conchords fans. There are two alien characters that appear in the episode, “Old Girlfriend.” They are voiced by none other than Bret and Jemaine.

TWC DNS Outage. Again.

Ever seeking to reinforce their appearance of ineptitude, Time Warner Cable has stopped resolving DNS requests again today. It must be that time of the month for them. One month ago to the day Forbes ran an article about how their DNS servers are still vulnerable to attack. I’ve bypassed this by using public DNSContinue reading “TWC DNS Outage. Again.”

Site Update

I’ve been updating the site all day – hopefully I’ll have a real post in a little bit. Oh, that photo is from Microsoft Virtual Earth. Find the story behind it here.

Petrodollar Recycling, the Bubble and You: Part II

Yesterday, I commented on how we were getting a demo on how some of the money being spent on oil was coming home and speculating on the real estate market. As insightful as that was, it looks like the downturn in the Dubai real estate market is going to dwarf the rollbacks in US cities.Continue reading “Petrodollar Recycling, the Bubble and You: Part II”