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Want WiFi in the Country check this out!

My parents live 6 miles from the closest town and about 3 miles from the closest high speed cable drop. Seeing this article in Engadget today got me to thinking on a solution that I may have to play around with. The key will be finding someone willing to let me mount some commercial WiFi Gear up on their roof.

BBC Annotatable Audio project

Hey I caught a whiff of this today and man this project looks pretty cool. I hope the BBC releases this as Open source i would love to have this incorporated over here for all of our Audio files it would allow people to find commentary in the archive very easily. So very cool! [BBC]

Robert Cringley in a mind blowing piece!

Imagine getting a call several weeks from now from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo saying hey we know you have a lot of data on your hard-drives and we want to store all of it for you, "for free". and you don't even have to send us a hard-drive. Every do some thinking about the storage infrastructure requirements to store all

Weblog Ping Servers are either broke or over loaded!

I have been watching our success rate at pinging major indexes over the past couple of weeks and I have drawn some conclusions. Most of the ping servers are broke big time and only a small portion of the pings are getting through. I have even went ahead and increased time-out times to ridiculous levels and to no avail the

Have a router but don’t have a clue on how to Port Forward?

Thanks Dave for the link. For those of you that don't have a clue what to do when it comes to setting up Port Forwarding on your router under your desk this website will teach you how to configure it and what port numbers you need to setup. [www.portforward.com]

RSS Integration in Search Engines

Dave Winer is on to something that is pretty powerful. Visit the referenced link, read the article and click on the link on his page. I hope the search engine folks realize the power in this. [www.reallysimplesyndication.com]

Kodak Ships first WI/FI Digital Camera

I've been waiting for this. You will hear me say that a lot. I love using my cell phone camera, I use it all the time, but the quality is not great. My digital camera has great quality but the non-automatic process of downloading and then e-mailing...well let's just say I have longed for both. I have had a bad