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Free Boingo WiFi This Weekend
The folks at Boingo have a good deal this holiday weekend: a free day pass that you can use at 100,000 hotspots worldwide!
I can tell you that, with the exception of Sea-Tac, where things are a little iffy still, Boingo has been a pretty good experience. I fire up my laptop, Nokia N95, or Nokia [...]
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Cable Modem?She Is Dead
Image via Wikipedia
Despite having my Motorola Surfboard SB5120 plugged into a damn UPS, my cable modem suffered an awful fate at the hands of a power surge–death. It’s not even trying to talk to Comcast anymore. It’s lights blink no more. It’s a doorstop, destined for the great bit bucket in the sky–or a nearby [...]
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Driving Off Road
Driving Off Road
Originally uploaded by PhoneBoy
There was a road there. It just wasn’t in Nokia Maps yet. Or any other maps I had access to. It’s one reason you can’t completely trust navigation aids.
Comments2 July 2008, Jonathan Greene writes: welcome to my world! I live off the grid if you believe any of the [...]
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Get iReady?to be iScrewed
If you’re a current AT&T Customer:
For those of you not AT&T Customers:
If you don’t want to watch these cheesy videos from AT&T, then here are the particulars:
1. New AT&T customers will get the 3G iPhone for $199 (8GB) or $299 (16GB), complete with 2 year ball and chain.
2. Current iPhone owners who purchased before 11 [...]
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Bypassing the Internet Filters
In the evenings, I like to work downstairs on one of the kids computers. It’s nice to sit somewhere else and work. Keeps the mind fresh, and it also allows me to experiment a bit.
One problem with doing this is the web filters, which I’ve set up to prevent “accidental” exposure to the naughtiness of [...]
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