It’s been a while since the firewall guys in the office sealed up the one last hole that allowed us to access to chat programs (e.g. Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger etc.) or 3rd party sites which allowed us to do the same.

All the while I have been simply using it on my Blackberry and there are drawbacks. It’s very slow on the Blackberry and chatting with several people can become quite a chore. On top of that, I won’t know immediately when someone sent me a message because I do not look at my Blackberry all the time.

So I finally had enough of it and signed up for unlimited download mobile Broadband plan with M1 as they are giving a special offer of 50% off the monthly subscription, along with a new Huawei USB 3G modem as long as I take up a 2-year contract.

As I have heard some pretty negative feedback about M1’s mobile broadband plans from a friend, I ran it to some ‘stress test’ by patching WindowsXP from SP2 all the way to post-SP3 wirelessly with it. And it was pretty alright because it hasn’t dropped at all. Speed was quite acceptable, considering the size of SP3 itself (316MB) and it was done more or less during working hours.

Finally, I can now chat with my friends in the office over Windows Live Messenger, and free myself from Wireless @SG connection, which in my opinion, is as stable as the sea breeze – which at times comes in gusts or nothing!

Picture done by Rinaz

Anyway, I will be putting another ad unit at the end of each blog post I made, either from Advertlets or Adsense from now on as some kind of personal ‘experiment’. I know some of you detest it when a blog has more than one ad unit on display but please bear with me if the page is going to load somewhat slower due to the ads.

But please do not click on them or do anythinn funny with them as I am not dying for the money I will make from this in any case. Also, it might fxxk up some of the statistics I am trying to gather. This is just part of a ‘personal project’ to something else I or some friends maybe doing down the road.

If you want to know what, all I can say now is that it will not be another blog aggregator because just like the alligator, blog aggregators have very much reached an evolutionary dead end.