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Technical

Telephone Service coming to your Broadband Service Provider

The New York Times has an interesting article on how several broadband companies are adding residential phone service to there line-up. I am sure that if Road Runner here in Hawaii adds the service many will drop Verizon like a bad habit. My wife is constantly bitching about the cost of the added services like call waiting caller ID etc

The year of the Matrix 2003

Any self respecting geek will have watched the matrix no less than a dozen times and will be trying to by tickets to the initial sequel "The Matrix Reloaded

Top 10 web design Mistakes for 2002

They hit the nail on the head with this article, very rarely do I agree with all points in an article. The Authors did a great job illustrating and explaining the common mistakes web site designers make. [Useit.com]

Some Good News in the Wi-Fi World

I spend a lot of time in hotels and prefer Marriott when there is a venue available. They are in my opinion making a great move they are rolling out Wi-Fi in their hotels. Should be a great complement to the venues that currently have broadband. [80211-Planet]

Bandlink is this a company you can trust

A company by the name of Bandlink (.com) is providing technology to record companies that allows a cd played in a personal computer to contact their server and relate statistics such as what track you're listening to and when you're listening to them. This information is then compiled into customizable reports that allow the record company to develop "User Profiles".

The web and homework

My oldest child spends a lot of supervised time on the net. She fully understands that tracking software is installed and subject to my oversight. She also understands that when using Internet sources as references the proper way to give credit and reference the source. Well it seems some kids and some parents just don't get it. According to a

Gateway Ties Unsold PCs Into Grid Supercomputer

All those lonely PCs waiting to be sold now have something to do: Tuesday, Gateway unveiled a plan to link nearly 8,000 PCs in hundreds of its retail stores in a grid-computing environment, and make the horsepower available to business, government agencies, research firms and universities. Gateway's Processing On Demand service maxes out at 14-teraflop performance, which makes it, according