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I spend a lot of time searching boutique web forums finding the answers to obscure questions.

It's a bit like searching the internet before there was Google (painful).

Enter Twing.

Pretty awesome.

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As I mentioned a few days ago Comcast said they would upgrade me to Blast by the 29th of Feb.

A Picture says a thousand words:

Before

After

note: at first I didn't see this upload speed. It turned out that the Gamerfuel setting on my D-Link DGL-4100 was restricting my upload speed. I fixed that by manually setting my upload speed:

Comcast is upgrading all customers on their Performance Plus plan (8 MBits down / 768 KBps up) to Comcast Blast (16 MBits down / 2 MBits up) by the end of Feb.

I just upgraded from slow poke cable modem (6 MBits down / 368 KBps up) a few weeks ago so this upgrade is very welcome!

I'll post a new pic when I'm upgraded.

Reeves has a rather humorous post all geeks can relate to.

You decide to update some piece of software or hardware that is working perfectly fine as it is. You do it because you want that new feature, bug fix, firmware update or whatever. You do it in a hurry, like 5 min before you need to walk out the door... and then you go Noooooooo!!!!! Because something went horribly wrong. Or you do it the night before you need to get up at 5 am for a flight somewhere... you know what I mean. You screw the thing up so bad you don't get any sleep and you hate yourself vowing never to do anything like that again.

I do disagree with Reeves' first point "If it ain't broke, don't fix it.". Um, that's not how we are built... .

This is one of the most amazing videos I have ever watched. You can only feel one thing: Sheer excitement and awe of the limitless capabilities of man.

I can only imagine just how proud all those involved in making the world’s largest commercial aircraft must be. Congratulations to Airbus.

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