QotD: Google Me

Have you ever Googled your own name? How did you feel about the results?
Submitted by elen.

Let me just say this: There are a lot of dead people from the 18th and 19th centuries with my name. Well that's before I put quotes around the search  and I get my old Blogger Blog and a few articles from my Newsvine Column (which I have not updated in a few weeks.) If I don't put quotes around my name, I get a bunch of guys from the early 18th century down the U.S.
    And I HATE cheap ethernet cable. So I come downstairs after waking up this morning, turn on the computer and guess what? The internet is down. So I go through my regular checks of checking all the connections. Nothing wrong there. I shut down the entire network, not that either. So then it comes to last thing before I call  (Evil) Aliant Tech Support. I unplug the modem and plug it back in again. Nothing. So then I try pieces of individual cable. Aha. There's the pro

blem.  Apparently the piece of ethernet cable that runs between the router and the modem is kind of funky, so it was acting weird. I fixed it, which was a relief, because living without the internet is like living with water. For me at least. At the very least, it's somewhat annoying, not having instant access to information and communication. One of these days I'm going to have to get around to replacing that piece of ethernet cable so things don't explode on me.
    See last time this happened was in May. I came home. At that time we only had 2 computer hooked up to the internet as opposed to the 4 we have now. There was the laptop and the main desktop. My sister and her friend where using both of them for one thing. Which was unfair, because I had work to do. So out of anger, I unplugged the router and told her that, If I couldn't have it, no one could (I know, I sound extremly selfish.) When the entire thing got resolved, I went to plug the router back in and got the dreaded "This connection has limited or no connectivity. Translation: The Internet was screwed. I'd had this happen to me before and we had to go to Dell Tech support to get it fxied because Aliant just read off of a sheet and did nothing to help us. This time it wasn't a hardware issue. A few night's previous, we had a lightning storm and through some strange happening, a bolt of lighning hit something and friend the modem. After going a week without Internet (It was like not having air to breathe.) and dealing with the crap that is Aliant we finally got our internet working again. In the information age, having internet is a necessity. Even if I miss it for just a day, I feel like I've missed something.