Christmas 2007, and Jaiden's first birthday

We had Christmas at my mom's house this year.

Jaiden is now one year old!

Jaiden has recently started doing this cute, curious thing where he puts his head and hands inside a white plastic box, and then stands up on his left foot, while raising his right foot in the air.

He only holds his foot up a brief amount of time, so it wasn't easy capturing this on camera.

Heather's wisdom teeth.. gone! Intense snow ensues!

Heather, Jaiden, and I went to an oral surgeon's office last Thursday and he drilled and/or extracted her two bottom wisdom teeth. She was "asleep" during the procedure (it's hard to really say that she was asleep since her eyes were open). She's been at home ever since and I took work off to look after her and take care of Jaiden. She is still feeling pain today and perhaps even a little sick. Poor Heather!
As I looked out the window, I noticed that it was a lot whiter than usual. It's snowing! Here's a picture I just barely took of our street. I don't think that I'll be traveling anywhere today unless this clears up soon.

Since Jaiden is looking so cute, I'll upload a picture I just took of him as well.

Jaiden's First Thanksgiving!

Jaiden had his first Thanksgiving.
In attendance at the feast were: Aunt Becky, my mom, my brothers, my sister, mommy, and myself.

Mommy making Jaiden laugh

Now it's mommy's turn to make the little guy giggle.

Aunt Rachel's Birthday Party

Well, last night was Aunt Rachel's birthday party. Jaiden can't crawl forward yet, but he does seem to be figuring out how to stand on his tippy-toes by himself.

We also got a picture of four generations of family members. Here is Jaiden with his mommy, his grandma, and his great-grandma!

Jaiden's 10 month picture online!

I just uploaded Jaiden's 10 month picture. You can see it, and all his other monthly pictures (starting from when he was first born) here.

Comcast internet canceled due to extremely bad behavior

When we first moved into this house in West Jordan, Utah, we were only able to get slow DSL, which prompted me to sign up for Comcast Internet. We had it for about 1.5 years. It usually was pretty decent for games and downloading, and even was pretty good for peer-to-peer file sharing using Bit Torrent. Then around August, all of that changed and suddenly Bit Torrent no longer functioned properly. Many other people reported the same problem. It turns out that Comcast has begun to actively sabotage Bit Torrent traffic on its network, and this fiasco is receiving a great amount of attention. Here is an article I read today on the subject.

To make matters worse, Comcast's PR department blatantly lied about sabotaging Bit Torrent.

This outraged me as a customer, especially since I love to share legal files with other people and BitTorrent is an excellent way to do this without using a lot of bandwidth. I also noticed that many of my neighbors had faster DSL than I currently thought I could get. So Heather called the phone company and found out that we now qualify for the faster DSL. This pleased me greatly, so we signed up for DSL again and are back with our beloved ISP, XMission.

Yesterday, I walked into Comcast's local office, turned in my cable modem, and officially canceled my subscription with them. When asked why I was canceling, I told the representative that it was because of their BitTorrent policy. He said that Comcast felt that BitTorrent was "network abuse". I told him that it didn't really matter what their reasons for blocking it were, because if they wanted me as a customer, they'd need to be friendly toward BitTorrent.

The two things about Comcast's antics that annoy me the most is a) they didn't notify me about their BitTorrent policy and b) their PR department denied involvement in BitTorrent blocking (which is either a lie of really bad internal communication).