It continues to amaze me how many small businesses (both existing and soon to be born) do not have an online component, particularly here in the Silicon Valley. In my continuing conversations with entrepeneurs and business owners I keep hearing…
July 6th, 2009 | Posted in Services, Small Business | No Comments
I had been considering building a terrarium or vivarium here in The Caverns, but the property management company has nixed the idea of little critters possibly roaming free around the apartment. So now I’m thinking about the possibility of…
December 5th, 2008 | Posted in Online, Retail | No Comments

Yesterday, I expressed my fantasy that Netflix would buy Earthlink, based on Netflix’ superb customer service. Well, we all know that’s probably not going to happen, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed anyway (so please forgive any…
August 16th, 2008 | Posted in Online, Services | No Comments
I’ve written several times about my problems with Earthlink DSL. It hasn’t gotten better, but I’m currently logging all of my downtime in hopes that I can make a case to someone in middle management there that they should credit…
August 15th, 2008 | Posted in Services | 4 Comments
Since the government loves crushing the free market by granting monopolies to their pals we only have one choice of a cable provider here in Morgan Hill: Charter internet. And right now they have what looks to…
July 9th, 2008 | Posted in Services | No Comments
Three days in a row now my Earthlink DSL service has cut out in the early evening. When I last wrote about needing a new provider of broadband DSL in Morgan Hill, about suix weeks ago, my internet…
July 9th, 2008 | Posted in Services | 1 Comment
When is another company going to step into the ISP/DL/Broadband market here in Morgan Hill? I got Verizon Online when I first moved here but the service was horrible and they’re only solution to the problem was to send me…
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in Services | 7 Comments
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Services | No Comments
Since it’s National Library Week I invited some fellow bloggers to comment on my recent anti-public library funding post. So far, only one has taken me up on the opportunity, but he did help point out a major weakness…
April 16th, 2008 | Posted in News | 1 Comment
Yesterday’s Morgan Hill Times contained an opinion piece by Lisa Pampuch, a former City Hall reporter for The Times, former City Editor for the Gilroy Dispatch, and President of the Morgan Hill Friends of the Library. The main point…
February 20th, 2008 | Posted in News, Services | 4 Comments