Comcast's Usage Meter. Perspective from a legal downloader.

Possibly in a former life I had used legitimate tools like bit torrent for purposes that content providers had not sanctioned but have long since ceased doing that. Comcast's commercials constantly taught their product's applicability for bandwidth intensive things such as photos, movies, and videos. I enjoy and exercise the ability to download multiple video podcasts, watch movies on demand through non-Comcast providers such as Amazon and Netflix, and use a third party VOIP service provider on a daily basis. In other words I use Comcast's product exactly as advertised and that is what has them concerned. It is also perfectly positioning Comcast for a class action anti-trust lawsuit. All of those competitor's on demand movies in HD sure do take a big chunk out of that monthly allowance. But hey those graphs sure are pretty to look at.

My darling daughter Helen and her tea...

    My daughter's K-6 Destination Imagination team in a first, won the state challenge and proceeds to the global finals.  

    Helen's team of fourth grader's won the Challenge E which focuses upon Structural Engineering, Materials Science, International Relations, Research, Innovation and Design Process, Mathematics, Theater Arts, Teamwork. While not a first for Cabot School, it is the first time ever that a team composed of elementary students have achieved this.  Their team composed a structure entirely out of newsprint and glue that held the record amount of 25 pounds.

    I hope to have photos of the event and more information soon.  The Vermont Destination Imagination website has some information as does the national website.  The global finals will be held in Knoxville Tennessee on May 26-29.  As I have more information I will post it here.