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It’s typhoon season again in the Philippines, and just this week I was left with no electricity and no running water for a little over 24 hours. But the ordeal isn’t over. I will be experiencing several power outages within the next few months. While it’s […] Read more »

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Web workers are dependent on, well, our web. So what do you do when yours is broken and you can’t convince the cable company of that? What do you do when everyone’s is broken and no one can convince the cable company of it, for days? […] Read more »

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Losing a big client actually launched my freelance writing career, but not all stories end as well as mine did. Today, I try to make sure the income I receive is spread across more clients so I don’t get into that situation again. You can’t always […] Read more »

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What would you do if your web connection went down right now? You might have a nice standard web connection, but faults, maintenance, and accidents inevitably leave each of us without web access at some points. If you rely on the web to work, it’s important to have a backup plan in place. Read more »

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The Department of Justice, normally a staid, even boring department of the U.S. government, is not known for issuing colorful press releases. But today, the DOJ issued a press note in which it came out against network neutrality and argued that the broadband service providers can […] Read more »

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