Posts Tagged long island
Top Long Island teacher salaries
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on April 6, 2010
Average teacher salaries for Long Island school districts. Courtesy of NYS DOE, via Newsday – data are from 2005:
1 Fire Island $96,228 2 East Williston $93,001 3 Island Park $88,992 4 Quogue $88,975 5 Great Neck $87,444 6 Roslyn $87,277 7 Mineola $85,978 8 Lawrence $85,400 9 East Rockaway $84,130 10 Bridgehampton $83,568 11 West Hempstead $83,546 12 Jericho $83,150 13 Carle Place $83,088 14 Locust Valley $82,553 15 Port Washington $82,520 Read the rest of this entry »
Lotsa downtime.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 18, 2010
Lots of power outages lately. Not the greatest time to move my site. 
Good thing I don’t need 99.99%+ uptime. Or even 95%…
Cablevision loses WABC (Channel 7)?
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on March 7, 2010
Wow. Glad I left. I imagine this will be temporary (like the HGTV ordeal earlier this year).
On another note, I got my 3rd FiOS bill – still running a credit. That’s $43 for 3.5 months of great service. Good luck competing with that, Optimum.
Got my second FiOS bill
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on February 12, 2010
So I got my second FiOS bill a couple of weeks ago. After the issue with my first bill was straightened out I ended up paying about $43 for the first 6 weeks of service. Well, my second bill was about $90, but applied a $180 credit on my account, so the bill showed -$91. So basically the first 3 months of service will end up costing me about $43. Even if it comes to $90/month for the remainder of the contract, this is such a huge savings that I don’t see how Cablevision could match it.
FiOS Ping Test
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on January 2, 2010
Ran a ping test at pingtest.net today. Overall I can’t find fault with the FiOS service so far. Port 80 and 443 are open and I have them forwarded to my Linux box so I can actually run a webserver in my basement. I’m debating moving this domain over to my own linux box, since it’s super low traffic, but I probably won’t.
Cablevision drops HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel??
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on January 1, 2010
Boy, good thing I left Cablevision when I did… HGTV is my wife’s favorite channel.
In a separate case, the owner of the Food Network and HGTV, Scripps Networks, removed its channels from Cablevision’s lineups on Friday, a consequence of a breakdown in talks between those two parties.
“Viewers love our talent and our shows, which is why Food Network and HGTV rank among the top networks in cable,” Kenneth W. Lowe, the chief executive of Scripps Networks Interactive, said in a statement Friday morning. “But our valuable networks simply are not being compensated like top 10 networks by Cablevision. The distribution rates Cablevision pays for Food and HGTV are among the lowest in the industry.”
The dispute may linger for some time; Cablevision said it had “no expectation of carrying their programming again, given the dramatic changes in their approach to working with distributors to reach television viewers.”
Source: NY Times and the HGTV website.
Got my first FiOS bill today…
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 26, 2009
Not good. The rep I spoke with had said she’d intercept the first bill and apply all the credits up front. I guess being Christmas she couldn’t, so I got this first bill of $208.22.
Snow on Long Island
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 20, 2009
I almost bought a snowblower the other day. Almost…
FiOS it is.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 5, 2009
Fios was installed today. Took longer than expected but I guess it went well. FiOS digital voice is pretty good, has one or two niceties that Optimum Voice didn’t (caller ID info in the emails it sends, for instance). The Motorola STBs are way better than the Scientific Atlanta (or whatever) that CV provides… I’m awestruck that when you hit the Channel + button, the channel actually changes.
Cablevision offered to woo me back again but since the service was already installed I said no thanks. They did say they’ll pay the termination fee for me to go back. Interesting… Anyway, Fios’s speeds are pretty good, I got as high as 26/20 on the 25/15 line. The Actiontec router is pretty nice too (model #MI424WR-GEN2).
FiOS speed test to Cablevision's server 2009-12-04
… or maybe I AM going with FiOS.
Posted by evan in Uncategorized on December 3, 2009
Well, this was unexpected. Verizon is really playing hardball with pricing. When I called this morning to cancel my install appointment, Verizon countered and they offered an extra $30/month discount. I asked for an extra STB for free (I figured all they can do is say no) and while the rep said she couldn’t do that, she did increase the credit to $40/month which would more than cover the cost of the 2nd box. So as of this moment, I’m on for FiOS tomorrow.
Ain’t competition great?
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