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Archive for August, 2007

Aug
16

Metro NY Balloon and Music Festival

Posted by Christian Horner on August 16, 2007

Hello all,

We had a great time at the New York Metro Balloon and Music Festival on Saturday Aug, 11th.  The 1 hour wait in line to get in was well worth it.  Check out the pictures below for yourself!  Big Head Todd and the Monsters played some great tunes and the balloons were amazing.  As the sun was setting and Big Head was pumping out some great blues the 22 balloons were inflated.  It was quite a sight seeing them come to life with flames shooting into them as they rose to the sky.  They all flickered and glowed as the sun went out of sight.  It was one of the coolest things we have ever seen.   Here is the website http://www.metronyballoonfest.com/

Enjoy the pictures…

Aug
06

Verizon FiOS Customer Service – Improvement Needed – However Internet Smokes!!!

Posted by Christian Horner on August 6, 2007

All,

If you take away Verizon’s horrible customer service, which I will go into in another posting and just purely take a look at their Broadband (Fiber) Internet speeds they are quite impressive. I have signed up for a 20Mb download and 5Mb upload service and just to see if they are providing what they were offering I went to http://www.dslreports.com and did a speed test. DSL Reports has been around for quite some time and they provide some great tools for checking internet access speeds. After running the Java based performance test to a test server in New Jersey I got the following results!! Nice job Verizon! Now just get your billing and customer support organization fixed and you might just have a good product that will allow you to survive the next 5 years.