The NBN is Just Stupid

Why are people talking as if the Philippine National Broadband Network deal makes any sense at all? If the Philippine government wants to get connected, have them hook their offices up to existing Philippine ISPs and be done with it. A government VPN over DSL, cable, and satellite plans from the best providers in each province would cost far less to build and maintain than this $329 million white elephant.

Connectivity is a commodity. The Philippine government is not YouTube; its bandwidth requirements simply do not justify building its own Internet backbone. Whatever your politics are, the NBN is just stupid.

Gundam 00: Code Geass Ideas

Sunrise’s wildly popular Code Geass seems to have served as a study for the upcoming Gundam 00: from the elongated mecha to the rebirth-through-destruction theme to the break at 25 episodes. Let’s see how much Geass gets into Gundam when the series premieres October 6. Click here to continue reading “Gundam 00: Code Geass Ideas”…