UPDATE: My love for Freakonomics has turned into an Uncrate post.
I’ve read several books written by Seth Godin recently and have enjoyed them all. Today on his blog Godin talked about seeing Steven Levitt present at a conference. Levitt is the author of the wonderful book Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. If you haven’t read it already, go out and buy it tonight. I think I plowed through it in half a day because it was so interesting.
It’s a joy to see two authors of books I love talk about eachother. Godin’s latest book is called All Marketers are Liars and is partly about the lie we (consumers) tell ourselves. Fiji Water does taste better than Dasani… at least in my own head. Fiji Water has way more Google citations, so it must not be just me. Since reading the book about a month ago I have framed so many businesses with that paradigm.
Anyone else read either of these?
So far I have loved having Verizon FiOS–it’s screaming fast and really stable. But over the past two days my IP address has changed twice (for a total of three addresses). Normally this isn’t too big of a problem, because it’s only the last set of numbers that changes, but I have seen every set change. The two addresses from the past day haven’t been anything alike.
This means it’s a huge pain for me to work on servers that control FTP authentication by IP. I called Verizon to see what was up (this is the first time I have noticed an IP change, and it happened twice in such a short time) and they had the balls to claim that it’s a feature. Another “feature” is they make the pattern a secret. Like somehow knowing when my IP will change makes the network insecure.
Bah! At least I’m still downloading at 1.3MB a sec (yea that’s bytes not bits).
UPDATE: Here is the FiOS for Business pricing matrix. Not even all business accounts have static IPs. What in the world? They ding business users $40/monthly for the pleasure of having a static IP which makes the business side of my package twice the price.
Lesson learned: under no circumstance (no matter how much dirt slips into a drain during a bathroom remodel) do not let the p trap lose its seal. Dry heaves and really bad times ensue.