There are a few new things in my life. Back in October, I quit my job at Advertising.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of AOL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Warner. So no more AOL jokes! I only stayed there a little over a year. The short version of the story is that I was not appreciated and poorly treated there, so I quit. My new employer is Visicu. We make software which allows hospital networks to set up centralized off-site monitoring stations for their ICU's. There's a huge shortage of intensivists in the country, and most hospitals can't staff their ICU's 24x7 with intensivists. Our software lets a hospital network staff a remote "eICU" with intensivists and nurses who can provide coverage for multiple ICU's at multiple hospitals. Check us out at http://www.visicu.com. We IPO'd last April (I missed if of course
). Nasdaq: EICU.Last weekend, I said goodbye to Comcast and became a Verizon FIOS customer. They wired our neighborhood a few months ago, and honestly I don't know what took me so long to sign up. I get local phone service with unlimited long distance (and this is real phone service not VOIP). For internet, I went with their upgraded 15Mbps service instead of their standard 5Mbps. That cost $10/month more. For TV, I got one regular set-top box for our bedroom and one "multiroom" DVR for our main TV in the family room. I have a little TV in my office which I didn't get a box for, so it can only get the analog channels (mostly local channels). The DVR is dual tuner, and the multiroom feature means we can play back shows on the bedroom TV that we recorded on the DVR. We didn't get any premium channels, but the basic service includes a couple hundred digital channels and about two dozen HD channels. Total price is about $160/month, which is quite a bit less than our previous combined phone/long distance/cable/Tivo/cable modem bill. My only complaint so far is that the DVR functionality is not as smooth as Tivo's. The user interface (menus) aren't so great, and the responsiveness on FF and REW is not so great. But those are minor issues in the grand scheme of things.
In other news, we're getting ready to remodel our master bathroom at home. And we're probably going to get a bidet. So sorry Tissue, but my days as a loyal TP customer may be nearing an end.
Ok, I'm off now to go post in the Something About Everyone and Battlestar Galactica threads. I wish there was a SciFi HD channel. They broadcast BSG in letterbox so it's obviously native wide-screen!
