Random Articles

• Mom’s Courtesy Smile The last few weeks have been a roller coaster of family emotions and get-togethers - from the passing of Grandma Hannah to Cooper’s first birthday. Add to that, all the family photos and stories and trees (back to 1751) my dad sent down. So, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about yesterday, and those places
• WiFi vs Cell Networks Question  If disaster strikes which one do you bet on for getting back up and usable faster? Inspired by: “Oftentimes, many of us immersed in Bay Area tech look straight for the shiny solutions, regardless of how ineffective they might be when the infrastructure collapses” - Eric Rice
• What’s the Future of Media Networks? PodcastMN.com pulls 70+ podcasts in to a single page using a single script. Is it a network? I hope not. But it does many of the same functions as a media network (ABC, BBC, NBC, etc); aggregate and present a collection of voices with some common collection of attributes. While other functions - distribution, production, bandwidth - are
• Forced Outage My 6+ year-old DSL modem is not longer serving faithfully. Yesterday, round dinner time, it stopped. Everything. The kind folks at Speakeasy.net are sending over a replacement, but until then…..I’m bouncing around local coffee shops for access. Ok - DSL is back, looks like it was something wrong with the line itself…but it’s hard to test
• Eight Stupid Things Bex asked me for 8 things; I took the left-brain/right-brain dominance test Bex referenced and it said I, “you focus on details until they manifest themselves in a unique pattern and only then work with the ‘larger whole’” and recommended I be a design consultant. Climatically, I’m the most comfortable between 42°N and 52°N. I