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  • Cable TV or “Skinny Bundles” or neither?

    Yow! In a recent tweet, a person going by River Ave. Blues (@RiverAveBlues) stated the following: CableTV is expensive, very expensive! “Skinny bundles” are expensive, some very expensive, they are definitely not “skinny” though they may not have all the channels that are available via CableTV, as you see from the tweet. Antenna plus free…

  • What would you do?

    Here’s the situation. You live in Jamaica. A not-so-close friend comes to you to borrow $1,000 JMD to buy food for his family for a week. You don’t really want to lend him because you have debts of your own but he’s quite persistent and assures you that he will pay you back in a…

  • Hydel finally dethrones Edwin Allen; Kingston College wins 2 in a row

    Girls Championships Hydel, with great performances from captain Anieka McAnuff and 100M record-breaking runner Alana Reid, and aided by the disqualification of Edwin Allen in the sprint medley that erased 12 points, helped Hydel hang on to a 2 point win. In the girls class one (1) 100M event, after semi-final runs of 11.16 and…

  • Did the marriage I predicted come true?

    Way back in 2001, 3 years before Ubuntu [Linux] distribution based on Debian Linux was released, I wrote an article entitled Let’s Marry Linux to Windows and got mixed reaction. Some people thought it was a good idea. Others thought it was a terrible idea that would never happen. Well, fast forward 15 years and not…

  • Login to Yowlink with Twitter account in the works.

    By default, we allow you to create a regular Yowlink account by registering (“sign up”). After a few weeks of fielding complaints from some Yawdies who already have Facebook accounts [but didn’t want to create another social networking account], we worked on the Facebook Login (“F Connect”). As Yowlink.com is a registered Facebook application, we…

  • Big Ups to the 2010 Super Bowl Champs, the New Orleans Saints

    I did not pick them but the New Orleans Saints is officially SuperBowl Champs 2010.   They pulled off what few expected them to do (and I am not sure why we didn’t since they have been a very good team all year). For many of us, it was all about “Peyton’s Place… er… Quarterback Peyton…