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Recently I’ve moved to new house. And because I simply can’t be offline as I work over the net I’ve decided to give 3G a try.
I gave 3Ireland a chance at first. Unfortunately their “Up to 3.6Mb/s” is far from advertised. I didn’t expect it to reach speeds they advertise but something closer to 1Mb/s, but in practice I’ve got only 200-300Kb/s down and 50Kb/s up and the connection choked so often it wasn’t even funny. So the next day I have returned it and went to Vodafone.

Vodafone turned out to be more reliable in terms of stability and speed. It can fallback from 3G to GPRS if the signal gets too weak (and in some parts of my home it does). While on 3G I’m getting speeds of ~1Mb/s down and 400Kb/s up which is great, on GPRS it’s ~380Kb/s down and ~50-90Kb/s up.
Latency is not as bad as I’ve expected: 100-250ms for most servers.
So… Vodafone is nice but there’s a catch… 5GB traffic limit per month.. AND it’s aggregate traffic for upload and download!
With my day to day internet habits and work I’m using 300-1000MB each day, and no that’s without any P2P traffic.
As of yet Vodafone seemed unwilling to make any kind of deal to get a better package, and I’m not sure I’m prepared to pay hundreds euro per month for medicore broadband.
I guess I could always try out O2, and I may actually do that, because I’m sure I’ll resign from Vodafone Broadband before the 14days return warranty.

I’m trying to get a DSL at home, but that may take anything between few weeks and 3months. I guess I’ll be calling BT everyday to check when the installer will come and in the meantime I have to look for an office space with nice internet connection.

And here I am again in Paris
I didn’t have much time yesterday to sniff around the expo, just walked by near it, but still I’ve took this footage of an interesting motorbike.

Today I hope to generate 1-2hrs to visit the expo. Especially because it’s just next door to where I work right now

Ireland is still full of suprises
My friend found Linden Village cider and it sure was fun to drink it

So this is like the world looks like at 4am

After reading ZenHabits I’ve decided to convert myself from being a Night Owl into an Early Bird.
I’m rather extremist when it comes to changing something. I usually do things on one go when it comes to changes in my life, so instead of waking up every day 10 minutes earlier until I would reach the 4am target - I have set up my alarm to 4am

To be honest this is not my first attempt

Yesterday I’ve tried, but made a critical error of reasoning with myself to go to bed for just a bit more… and I’ve stayed in until 8am Well they have warned me not to reason with myself in the morning…

And again, Fridays are not the best time to change something in your life… but hey, had to start someday.

I’ve stumbled upon a great website on Lifehacking while reading Torley’s blog…

I find a lot of things mentioned there that I already do or figured out the hard way… but there’s so many things I can introduce to my life it makes me so excited that I think I’ll start straight away.

Having a good idea is easy. Executing the idea is where most people fail.

…as you can read here.
This is so true it just hurts… I have so many ideas, just making a decision on which to pursue first is the hard one, and often a fatal in this sense that it may lead to not doing anything at all!

I’ve joined Twitter, let’s see what all the hype is about
My twitter is available here

There’s something about Fridays that makes me feel great. I wonder if going on retirement feels like Friday multiplied by fifty.

Heh