Office Warfare
If your office is ever taken hostage, be sure to have these common office supplies in your drawer so you can make yourself a vicious bow and arrow.
OneEighty Bend Gets Bought By Unicom
Did I miss this in the local paper? I happened upon this Spokesman Review article that says that OneEighty (formally known as Highspeed Communications, formally known as EmpireNet, formally known as a guy whose name I completely forgot running a BBS out of his basement) is selling it’s Bend and Madras branches to Unicom. OregonTrail, I’m assuming, is part of that deal as well (as they were bought up by OneEighty).
Personally, I haven’t dealt with any of those companies for quite a while (I have had to deal with OneEighty on behalf of a client, but it was on minor issues that are probably going to get much more complicated now). I did have to deal with OregonTrail when I first started working at Sunray, as they hosted Sunray’s site (long since moved) and they were a bit of a pain to deal with as they didn’t know much about hosting, it seemed.
I also know there are some folks locally who are getting free hosting from OneEighty in return for links back to the company’s site — are those folks going to get booted?
So who does that leave in Central Oregon for Network/Data Center providers? Other than BendCableBroadband, who else is there? It seems most of the smaller ones that used be around have disappeared.
Update: I’m an idiot. Now I know why it’s not in the Bulletin — it probably ran two months ago when the actual purchase happened. So not only am I not on the ball, but The Spokesman Review is quite a bit late to the game, too.
Ugh…I need more free time to keep up on this stuff…
I’m Sure Somebody Gets Off On This
If you’re one of those weird people, here are some videos of people with hiccups.
Moron Crook For The Day
If your weed gets stolen, don’t call the police and report it missing. Just in case you needed to be told.
Fun Word Games
The vocabulary geek in all of us (OK, maybe some of us) will love these games.
Can’t Say That I Wouldn’t Have Done The Same Thing
If you’re going to be loud and disrespectful in school, I think you deserve to have your mouth taped shut.
Another Great Headline
“Plumber fined for taking a leak“. Thanks Cheryl for that.
Can You Identify This Purse?
I occassionally read through Ask ORblogs, which is like a localized version of AskMeFi. This question caught my eye as it sounds like something a reader of this site might know (and I’m just copy/pasting the question here, so don’t blame me for the errors)…
I bought this purse in TN and it has a horse logo embossed over jwm derr Bend oregon USA.Does anyooone know anything about jwm derr? It is a really nice hand crafted leather purse.
Can anybody help him? Either comment over there or here.
Everyday Low Prices and A Date?
Apparently there are Wal-Marts that advertise that they are singles hot spots. While I’m married, I do shop at the local Wal-Mart, and, personally, I don’t think I’d date too many of the folks I see at the store.