50th and France WiFi
I’m happy to report that if you find yourself in the 50th and France area of Minneapolis with a laptop and some time on your hands – you will not have any problems finding an open WiFi access point to hop on the net.
Technology
Blackberry Break
I just got back home after a business trip. This trip entailed an offsite training event. At any event like this you have a couple of breaks in the morning and afternoon. These used to just be a “Break”. A decade ago when cell phones really became prevalent these turned into …
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Going over to neighbors to help put in new WiFi access point.
Fanatical About Backpack
I think amongst my cadre of hyper-geeky, super web savvy friends I was probably a little late to get to Backpack. About a month ago however I was faced with a challenge. I had a bunch of information all over the place and I wanted to consolidate it. I’d always liked the idea of a …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Fanatical About BackpackTransfering data to Garmin GPS60CSx over USB and so happy to be done with serial ports.
Drooling over just announced iPhone — must have. Imagining twittering on iPhone.
New Baby Monitor
We have been perpetually frustrated with the baby monitor that we got when Mazie was born. We got the Sony NTM-910 because it had good reviews, brand reputation and specifically since it was 900MHz and wouldn’t collide with our wireless network at 2.4GHz and our wireless phones …
Keep reading · 1 minute: New Baby MonitorMust Have Thunderbird Add-Ons
I’m not one of these folks that scours the internet for Firefox extensions only to make my web browser slower and crash more often. However, I’ve recently been really frustrated by some shortcomings in Thunderbird (email client) and thought I would share some findings. I use …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Must Have Thunderbird Add-OnsTraineo
While reading TechCrunch about a week ago I saw a headline about a “web 2.0” community-centric fitness site called Traineo. This hit all my hot buttons since the “geekery” sounded cool and I’m looking for something to help me along my path to getting smaller again. A couple of …
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