If you are in the market for an external hard drive, let me gently nudge you in the direction of this Iomega Prestige 1TB USB 2.0 model. It costs $104.99 (without shipping), which is pretty damn sweet for a 1 TB drive. There's a 500 GB version for $74.99 and a 1.5 TB version for $149.99.

We have the 1.5 TB version and it's pure awesomeness. It's sleek, slim, simple plug and play and you're basically not going to find a better deal at the moment if you are looking for an external drive.

Note: If you're looking for extra storage but don't want to fork over a hundred dollars or more, remember that there are cheaper alternatives like adding a second (old) hard drive to your system.

Finally got that phone connection yesterday at the new house. It only took 5 weeks, 7 phone calls and 2 visits to the Customer Center. Awesome. But we're not out of the woods yet as there still more work to be done on that front. Hopefully once August rolls around everything will be done and (finally) in place again.

Going 5 weeks without having internet at home was weird to say the least. It meant having to go out and actually interact socially with real people (the horror), catching up on my reading, seeing the sun and also going to bed at reasonable hours and actually getting a full night's rest.

But hey, now it's back to looking at Fail Blog without restriction (WIN!).

Dealing with some companies during our moving process has been a bit more frustrating than expected to say the least. First, there was TDS telling us that their directors had to hold a meeting to decide when to give us our deposit. And while that just seemed absurd, it does not comapre to the horrible service that UTS has been giving me recently.

I've been a UTS customer for years now. I have their ADSL, their 3G, a landline and a pre-paid cell account. Throughout the years, I have paid every bill on time, spent hundreds of guilders a month on internet and phone costs and I have featured them on this site with all of their offers and services. So, you would consider me a good and valued customer right?

As you can see, we've re-designed the site during the past couple of days. We've always liked a minimalistic-type look that focusses on content but these little changes will allow for more flexibility down the road.

We've also set up a new feed so click on that big orange feed logo on the right hand side or you can just click here.

HI - I flew out from Hato Airport Curacao last week and could not detect any wifi in the airport. The person I was sitting next to also said he couldn't detect any. Just FYI.

 

We made frequent visits to the Airport during the past year and there was free Wi-Fi everywhere, in the terminal while waiting to board our flight and on the deck outside where you can sit and eat. So, this could be coincidence but it's definitely something that we'll be looking for when we're at the Airport again in a few weeks.

We appreciate the heads up from Joanna and if you've been to Hato recently, please let us know if Wi-Fi was available or not.

Hi first I want to congratulate all who made this Site possible.

Here's my story. I live in Aruba. 2 years ago I bought a Directv system from GRupo Leo N.V the represantitive of Dtv in ARuba. I got a very old receiver with a remote that doesn't work for F812. But the receiver works okay so I enjoyed Directv service for the last 2 years despite all the bad service I got with them.

Now last month when I went to their office to pay my bill they showed me a new receiver they just got and said that I have to buy that receiver now if I want to continue to get Directv service. I told them that I'm not interested in the new receiver and that I just want to continue with the service as it is right now.

They said no because Directv has changed his system and without the new receiver I won't be able to pick up the service anymore. They didn't even offer me a trade in option I had to buy that New receiver and throw that one I have ...

This is obvioulsy not "tech" related but I have to point out the great season that Jair Jurrjens is having so far for the Braves. Jurrjens pitched another gem last night, going 7 innings and allowing just 3 hits and 1 run. He lowered his ERA to 1.96 (!) and improved his record to 4 wins and 2 losses.