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Monthly Archive May, 2006

wi-fi mesh mess

Some time ago I compared public Wi-Fi hotspots to public restrooms: functional yet unkept dirty locked water access points of last resort. My view over the last five years hasn’t changed much. I have frequently used both public and fee-based hotspots both in the US and abroad and in many cases they have [...]


going up market

AOL.jpgI don’t know about you but back in the day, I must have thrown away hundreds of those free signup disks for AOL. Call it techno-arrogance but there was no way I was going to use AOL when I could just sign up with a local ISP. And besides AOL was simply lame. Who on Earth would ever sign up for this sort of junk?