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Britain's Got Something!

If you're one of the 3 or 4 people on the planet who hasn't seen this yet, here's the amazing Susan Boyle last week on Britain's Got Talent.

It's no exaggeration to say that this is a perfect example of what's right in the world today.  The YouTube video (with lyrics) can be found here.

Comcast Speed

[Edited April 6, 2009]

Comcast's lastest e-mail indicated that they're upgrading their connection speeds. The speeds previously promised by Comcast were 6 mbps down and something like 768 kbps up.

And even though Comcast didn't specify exactly what the new speeds are, according to their website the speed boost in my area has either been completed or is in progress - I'm not sure which.

So I ran a number of speed tests over several days to a variety of servers in the US and Canada. The results are inconclusive.

There's great variability, which can be attributed to time of day, the number of my neighbors also tapping into the local node, the distance to the test server, etc. 

But the results are not conclusively better than the results I got last May when I ran similar test. Here are the results from last May.

 

Even though Comcast's speeds have been acceptable, I would certainly switch to Verizon FiOS, which is more reliable and faster at a lower cost, if I could.