Portland to offer free WiFi. Texas highway rest stops to get WiFi. Cows to get WiFi. Still no wireless in Charlottesville.
Category Archives: Tech
To disrupt a playroom is commonly a practice of children.
Google has filed for their IPO. They intend to raise $2,718,281,828. That might seem like a random number, but it occurred to me just now that it’s not. That’s e, a constant that is often represented to the ninth decimal: 2.718281828. It’s not just a constant, it’s the constant, arguably the single most important number …
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Loved and lost.
So I got this crazy cool phone last month, the Sony Ericsson T610, from T-Mobile. This phone is unbelievable. Between T-Mobile’s GSM service, the T610, the Jabra Bluetooth BT200 headset and my Macs, it’s like living in the future, I swear to you. Unfortunately, T-Mobile’s service is terrible in my apartment and, in fact, on …
Sometimes, you’ve got to take your spam in hand.
A primary constant in my life is spam. For several years now, it has dominated my e-mail, and I have been forced to adapt in order for e-mail to remain a useful communications medium. First I just erased the spam, and then, in late 2001, I started using SpamBouncer, which filed all spam in a …
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Hook’s review of the fate of HB 842.
In the newest issue of Charlottesville weekly The Hook, Courteney Stuart writes about Del. Mitch Van Yahres’ efforts to convince the state of Virginia to use open source software through the ill-fated HB 842 (“Back at it: Waldo brings Microsoft calling“). Although Courteney gives me way too much credit (I pitched the idea to Mitch, …
The price of free.
I’ve had my Motorola V60i PCS for a little over a year now. It’s not a bad little phone. When I got it, it was the best phone that Ntelos had. (Which wasn’t saying much — it’s a basic black and white just-the-facts phone.) But, starting about six months ago, I wanted more. A little …
USCR ME
The downside of having license plates that say “GNU LNUX” is that when people drive by me honking, flashing their headlights and waving, I don’t know if my car is on fire, or if they’re just big fans of Linux. It’s getting to be a problem.
WiFi at Best Western.
Best Western has announced that they will be offering free Internet access in every one of their hotels in the nation by September 1st, most with WiFi, and a few with wireline access. I have never had any allegiance to any particular chain of hotels, but you can be sure that I’ll only be staying …
Heat your home with a candle.
Man, this aerogel that NASA is using is some crazy stuff: “At around 0.003 grams per cubic centimeter of material — only about three times as dense as air — aerogel is pure silicon dioxide. […] Not only is it the least dense solid in existence, it is also such a remarkable insulator that a …
Municipal OSS.
Hey, look, free software can save municipalities oodles of money! Who knew? Not the City of Charlottesville, apparently.