Archive for July, 2008

Rogers or TekSavvy?

July 5th, 2008

I’m moving into an apartment in Toronto, and I still need get get an ISP so I can connect to the interwebs. I’m leaning towards rogers… but they just seem too evil for me to associate myself with. The transfer limits they introduced (60 GB for the Express plan) are just way too stupid. Why do you need 7 Mbps if you can only transfer 60 GB per month? Dicks!

I heard about this other ISP Teksavvy. They rent their lines from Bell who, like Rogers, does traffic shaping. However, Teksavvy seems to be a decent company, and they support Net Neutrality — they were on Parliment Hill protesting… where was Rogers and Bell? Oh wait, I don’t think they support Net Neutrality, just show them the $$$ and they’re happy! Also, Rogers actually breaks into your browsing sessions and rewrite the pages you view to warn you about going above the transfer limit.

Out of principal I want to go with Teksavvy. But for some reason I’m still leaning towards Rogers. I think it’ll be easier to just go with Rogers, and I’m not really sure what to expect from Teksavvy. Am I stupid? :P

PS. There is a forum where users discuss different ISP, and there is a section for Teksavvy.

Starting Wedding Plans

July 2nd, 2008

Ams and I started plans for our wedding. Ugh. It’s so troublesome! Why does it take so much time and money to have a wedding? I hope everything will go alright and we won’t be too overwhelmed!

We’re thinking about setting up a website for our wedding. Maybe some blog posts and stuff. Could be a chance for me to experiment with Django. I can link it up toe del.icio.ius and flickr so we can make micro-blogs. :P