Bikerscum - Patrick St. Jean

After a long-ish call, bouncing around between a couple departments we got it all sorted out. I've now got a residential FiOS TV account along side my business FiOS Internet account. The channel line-up looks perfect, the cost is OK, and the TiVo's hap… more »

Well, the installation is done but it's not quite right. There's still a bit of a knowledge gap between the business and residential sides in the ordering center so I was not provisioned with what I was told I was going to get. That means I'm missing a… more »

I have FiOS, the business class service because I wanted static IPs so that I could host things like this blog. In mid-December Verizon had me change netblocks to allow us business customers to take advantage of new products and/or services. Well, it t… more »

I found a 10% off coupon that I'd gotten with the Vonage rebates and went back over to the store to see if they could apply it. It turned out that they could and I saved another 10% on the purchase price, which I'm not going to scoff at. more »

When I signed up for Vonage, Circuit City was doing a pretty sweet deal with rebates and such. They paid for the adapter, the signup fees, and left me with a gift card to put towards an upgrade of my receiver. The only problem was that the card had a r… more »

I've been seeing a lot of commercials for those so calledstarving artist sales coming up here in the metromess and started to do a little digging. Well, here's some info from someone with a Ph.D. in art that helps set the record straight. Personalli,… more »

Today was the big day. I finally got fed up with 35 hours on my Hughes SD-DVR40 and upgraded it with The Zipper. I had two 60 gig drives laying around and decided to put them to good use. The Tivo came apart easily and after a few missteps with burnin… more »

There's a lot of problems with getting Tivos to work with Vonage and DirecTV made it worse by disabling the USB ports, which means that we can't hook up an Ethernet adapter. After digging around for a while I foind a combination that worked for me and m… more »

I went to Stroker's Icehouse for lunch today and got to watch them taping part of an episode of Texas Hardtails. It was a lot of fun to see what goes on behind the scenes. Kind of like dinner theater, just with bikers and beer. more »

The SciFi Channel had their season openers of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Battlestar Galactica tonight. Other than a burp in my Tivo which got corrected, I got to see all of them. The new SG-1 has some potential. It's nice to see some new… more »