Got blown about a bit while taking the dog for walk this morning. Winds now at tropical storm level, as can be seen from this clip, shot from Salt Kettle ferry stop, looking across Hamilton Harbour to the city.
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Love you like a hurricane
Posted: September 18, 2010 in Bermuda, humourTags: Bermuda, hurricane, Hurricane Igor, Igor
Oi, leatherface! Wanna rum'n'Dunkley's?
Ten things to love about hurricanes:
- Days of practice to become a Scrabble/Risk/Monopoly/chess ninja
- Finally getting to read that pile of old technology paper portable devices on the bedside table
- Meeting neighbours you didn’t know existed
- Naked solar showers in the garden
- Sharpening your machete skills
- Legitimate excuse to run around wielding a chainsaw with a leather mask on
- Really innovative BBQs – yes, you really can do lasagne on a grill …
- Bizarre cocktails. Nothing like black rum to liven up that milk and OJ in the warm fridge before it goes off
- Dinner by candlelight
- Sex by candlelight
And 10 things to hate …
- The embarrassment of losing to your kids at Scrabble/Risk/Monopoly/chess yet again
- Power outages. By the third day, the novelty’s definitely over.
- Meeting neighbours you didn’t know they existed
- Neighbours filming you taking naked solar showers in the garden
- Piles of rotting vegetation. Phew!
- Tripping over while wielding a machete
- Falling over with a chainsaw after one too many rum’n’curdled milks
- Running out of candles and wondering just what the hell you’re eating for dinner
- Regretting buying that electric scooter
- Sex by candlelight (unless, of course, you’ve got the aforementioned solar shower)
Dream on, Bermuda. We're stuck in that left-hand pre-1999 timewarp.
Swiped this from the rdiscover tech site. Food for thought – and about time for consumers demand better, cheaper services from Bermuda’s so-called “world class telecommunications” providers.
Yesterday Chattanooga rolled out 1 Gigabit internet service to all its residents and business. The first City in the US.
New Pricing, effective Sept 13th in Chattanooga
– 30 Mbps up and down for $58
– 50 Mbps per second for $70
– 100 Mbps per month for $140
– 1 gigabit for $350 per month (launched September 13th)Bermuda, population 68k people / Est. GDP: 5.86 Billion 2007.
Pricing effective September 8th
– 1 Mbps – $89
– 4 Mbps – $135
– 6 Mbps – $175
– 8 Mbps – $210 (launched September 8th)It is not Bermuda’s distance, it not Bermuda’s size … must be something else 🙂
Things will improve if TeleBermuda and Cablevision are allowed to enter the home market and provide higher residential speeds – although they are only promising a miserable 12mbps – while North Rock trumpets its new 8mbps service as though it’s cutting edge.
With services like Hulu, BBC iPlayer and devices like Apple’s new streaming TV, the digital convergence of TV and the internet is here and now. If we want to really take advantage of it, consumers need to demand it. Let’s hear ya, Bermuda!
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