Wi-Fi as we know it has been around for a good 10 years now — 802.11b arrived in October 1999 and 802.11g followed in 2003. And yet for the most part, the products for home use of wi-fi are a…
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Why the Associated Press (AP) sucks u-know-wot
If you follow any blogs at all (and I sincerely hope this isn’t your only source of news), you’ll know that the Associated Press have gotten litigious of late (see these search results for a taste). That’s enough to make…
Big Company Blinders… A quality Rant :-)
Ahh, the incredible lure of a big company paycheck. This post was inspired by some recent events, but it covers behavior I’ve seen repeated many times before. I was having dinner with a good friend earlier this week. For the…
Why I Fly Southwest
Been traveling more than usual of late and have been flying Southwest for most of it. I’ve been a Southwest fan for a long time and every trip reminds me why that is. It’s mostly simple things: Their prices are…
And I quote: “Satanic blob beast menaces North Carolina”
Ewwwwwwwwwww… In fact, the pulsating satanic blob monster is nothing more than a colony of tubifex worms. Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department, explained to News 14 Carolina that the creatures frequent “sewage and pond sediment”,…