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Today, sites all over the Web are making a statement by

“[covering] the web with symbolic ‘loading’ icons, to remind everyone what an Internet without net neutrality would look like, and drive record numbers of emails and calls to lawmakers.”

Obviously if you’re reading this, you see that I’m participating. You can too.

Go here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/

There are super-simple instructions there (scroll down) for adding a modal or banner to your site, to show your support. The modal like the one you saw here is best because visitors to your site can very easily add their names to the letter for congress, and also get connected to their representative by phone–without even having to dial. Either way all it takes is a few lines of HTML code in your site’s &lt;head> element.

The Web and indeed the Internet as we know it today wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for equal access to bandwidth without the throttling and corporate favoritism that the big ISPs and carriers are lobbying for. Without Net Neutrality, we will be forced to pay more for services we love, and miss out on continued incredible innovation that’s only possible if new and small players have the same access to Internet bandwidth as the BigCo’s.

Please help!

https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/

Ps. If you need a spinner (gif or png), check out SpiffyGif.

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Canceled Comcast cable and premium channels: -$130/mo
Canceled Comcast home phone: -$55/mo
Canceled TiVo subscription: -$14/mo
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Saved: $199/month

Signed up for Ooma basic phone service: $4.66/mo
Signed up for Hulu+: $7.99/mo
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New costs: $12.65/mo (less than TiVo alone)

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Total Savings: $186.35

Farewell, Comcast Cable. We won’t miss you.

Ps. It was harder to disconnect TiVo than Comcast. Their retention people offered me $10/mo and then $7/mo. They pretended not to understand when I explained that the service has almost no value for me without cable, and even suggested I get an HD over-the-air antenna. I had to actually yell at them to get them to turn us off.

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After my last post, promising (mainly to myself) that I’d blog more, I asked on Twitter what should be On Deck, so to speak.

I’ve decided I’m going to focus first on thoughts about user experience design, and related team/project stuff, since that’s what I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about of late.

I’ll probably do some posts about resumes and job hunting soon, and that may (at my sole discretion) include some thoughts about what it was like to work at Microsoft. I’ll also definitely touch either directly or tangentially on software development lifecycle, and team dynamics issues.

But mostly what I’m interested in – for many years now – is great software, with great user experience, and engineering practices that enable its creation and ongoing evolution.

So… Stay tuned… Thanks!

Ps. New Tagline and About text. Let me know what you think…

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