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My Streamyx is screwed again. Actually it’s been like that for a month now. The speed is nominal in the mornings but after 8pm the speed drops to 1/4 the normal. My last bandwidth test came up with 104.4 Kbits/download and 290Kbits/upload. Looks like someone’s overselling bandwidth again, you think so? Or could it be a simple port overload? I reported the case last week and was assigned a case and an engineer. They call me up 1 day later to verify. I said no one showed up, they gave me a number to call. I called and was informed that the engineer should have already attended to me. Further investigation revealed that the engineer never showed up, he excuse was “there were too many students around the exchange box for me to work on it”, literally. That was it, I never heard back. ...

This the third time this week. I love McDonald burgers, explains the few pounds I’ve gained but that’s besides the point. I’ve been going there for lunch for the past 3 days. I’m attending an Oracle training and McD’s the closest fast food joint available. I have a habit of clearing out my tray into the designated bins after my meals. But somehow I tend to receive weird looks and the ocasional laugh from the patrons there. What’s so funny? ...

![](/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/15-1cover3dsmall.gif" alt=" 411VM Skateboarding Volume15 Issue1 2007" width=“159” height=“280” />][2] I torrent quite abit and I know you do too. Thought it would be cool to share some of the torrents I find interesting with you. Back in school I was part of a skate crew, this was back in Cameron Highlands. Best time of my life. If I remember right, I went through 5 decks. Powell, Mapel, Shortys and World Industries, Blind tires, Panther bearings and not to forget, my DC, ES, Emerica and Globe shoes. ...

advertlets seems to be offline, their ads are ok but [advertlets.com][2] is down. Looks like a DB issue. Update: Advertlets is back online. The downtime was for [scheduled maintenance][3] work. [1]: /wp-content/uploads/2008/05/advertlets-offline.png) [2]: http://www.advertlets.com/ [3]: http://www.advertlets.com/weblog/2008/05/10/scheduled-maintenance-this-sunday-pending-cashouts/

OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is out. The Beta is available to all those who wish to test, evaluate and report bugs about the next major release scheduled to be released in September. The new release is packed with tones of new improvements. [See the full feature list][2]. New “Start Centre”. New icons. Zoom capabilities. Improved spreadsheet features. Columns now increased from 256 to 1024. Support for ODF 1.2. Support for Office 2007, 2008 document files. OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is currently available for MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and OpenSolaris. Head on over to the download page to grab your copy. ...