Archive for: July 2006

Thanks to Teressa for pointing me at the AirPower Wiki, which attempts to document the various airports and the places in them where you can find a usable AC recepticle. It seems a bit sparse at the moment, but …

I’ve been catching up on my RSS Feeds today and I have a few different things I want to comment on:

SightSpeed goes 5.0 on Wednesday: I am so looking forward to this. As I have raved before (and …

Tip of the hat to Andy for pointing me at Visualware’s MyVoIPSpeed Internet Connection Test. This provides not only bandwidth measurements (up and downstream), but gives you information about your “Quality of Service,” your jitter, and packet …

My wife ordered me a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Soap with our latest order of groceries from Safeway. I haven’t had any in a very long time. I’m glad I waited until later to shower today, because let …

Andy Abramson had alerted me to the fact that while we have our panties in a twist about Network Neutrality, Qwest and the other ILECs are trying to kill Level 3 through the courts. Gordon Cook’s piece …

When coming back from this particular trip, I had four boxes waiting for me–three from Amazon.com and one box from FON. Packed inside was a Linksys WRT54GS flashed with FON’s firmware (and $13 US for that router delivered to …

About three weeks ago, I had ordered a $5 router from FON, which is trying to build a WiFi network out of people buying heavily subsidized routers and sharing their Internet access. I started to worry because it had …

I know that Andy Abramson has complained about this before, and I’m pretty sure I have too. But Broadband in hotels is very hit or miss. By that, I mean the available speed and access is adequate. Here are my …

One thing I’ve been excited about doing since I realized I could was make my MacBook play movies on my regular TV at home. I had ordered a Mini-DVI to VGA adapter so I could run a second monitor on …

Andy blogs the fact that Gizmo Project will be giving PSTN calls away to 60 Countries, but there’s a catch: the people you call must be Gizmo Project members, they must be added to your buddy list, and …