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Apparently, but this might be wrong, I’m online right now…

(from Facebook)

Upon the insistence of a friend, I’ve installed the StumbleUpon Firefox extension and I must say I can’t believe I’ve missed out so long. When StumbleUpon first hit the news, I passed it on as a ridiculous fad, but now I’ve killed countless minutes clicking the “Stumble!” button.

I’ve already found a few gems, such as the winners of the “I Like My Dog” contest, hilarious images like this one and a [list of “almost every …

Apparently my Qwest connection has about 3M download, and 512k upload. Not so good for a service that claims “up to 7 Mbps download” (I’m getting 3) and “896 Kbps upload” (I’m getting 512k).

Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed a weird “throttling” effect on my Internet traffic. I’m on Qwest’s “Fastest” home DSL, and after I start up my BitTorrent downloading and uploading, it fluctuates. Every once in a while it will rapidly descend to 0 kb/s, and the connection goes dead, essentially. I can’t download, upload, surf the web, ping servers, and so on.

Then, after around 5 seconds or so, it ascends back to normal, and …

Digg’s Cloud View, originally uploaded by rob1n1.

The cloud of upcoming news. Ow, my eyes…

Is it even possible to do this? I’ve been trying to cancel my MySpace for a few days now, but I never get the email. Of course, it’s my school’s email, so it may be blocked by something my school has set up, but even my Gmail doesn’t seem to be able to receive the “email changed” confirmation code.

Is it actually possible to cancel a MySpace? Has anyone done this before successfully?