Starting this baseball season, SBC will offer free Wi-Fi at SBC Park, formerly known as Pacific Bell Park. Next year they start charging. As SBC is a telco, it kind of makes sense, but isn’t the point to watch the game? Are we so attention challenged that we’ll pay for entertainment and [...]
Yes this is lifted from Slashdot, but I was excited to see Congress following up on my idea (!) is looking into outrageous Cable TV rates and is threatening legislative action. Might as well get my Comcast bashing all done in one day. On the idea of cable channel packages,
“When I [...]
When we moved to Marin from San Francisco, one of my early annoyances was constantly missing Stargate SG1 on the Sci-Fi channel Friday night. (When we stayed home of course. I mean we go out. Sometimes. Okay, not often. But hey, we’re married. Dinner and a movie are cheaper [...]
Last week the California Lottery site switched from the old IIS/ASP setup to an Apache/JRun/Cold Fusion setup. I applaud the first two, but what are they thinking using Cold Fusion on a site that is so heavily trafficked?
I visited the site yesterday, the day after a biweekly drawing and it was a pitiable mess. [...]
My theory as to why Apple made the radical OS switch from OS 9 to Unix-based OS X has finally been borne out.
I have long surmised that an ego like Steve Jobs must have been incredibly irked when walking around Pixar and not seeing any Apple hardware. And for good reason, the Apple OS [...]
Seems that the founders of Google were very affected by the movie Mary Poppins. Not only is Google feeding the birds, but they are actually employing them to perform their complex page ranking decisions. Yes, PigeonRank™ has finally been unveiled as the heart of the Google search engine. From the article …
“PigeonRank’s [...]