Constitution Communications tells us there is a widespread service outage at the moment affecting prospects within the Reno/Sparks area.

On October 14, 2008, an article appeared in the Fairmont Sentinel, of Fairmont, Minnesota, reporting that Charter was promoting parts of their system to Midcontinent Communications, including Charter’s offices in Bemidji and Worldwide Falls, Minnesota. Starting February 1, 2009, Midcontinent Communications took over some Charter’s cable system in Minnesota together with Balaton, Bemidji, Canby, Ely, Fairmont, International Falls, Littlefork, Sherburn, and surrounding communities. Other areas in Minnesota would have bought to Comcast, but the deal fell through.

Already, not in some speculative future, but in the here and now, cyber-area is giving start to new, ‘synthetic’ life forms. In pc labs, programs have been designed to replicate particular environments (say, an ‘ocean’) and into these environments a ‘species’ (for example, ‘fish’) has been launched that is programmed to adapt to changing conditions. Generations pass and adaptations are made quite unbiased of the unique program. The fish swim about, eat, reproduce and die in cyber-house.

Whether or not you are after telephone, TV, or web, you need the reassurance that your service can be accessible with stability that enables it to carry … Read the rest