In response to: Charter Starts Internet Video Trials Charter is the latest cable operator to fire up their “TV Anywhere” Internet video ambitions — a “cord cutter” retention tool that involves giving paying TV customers access to a walled garden of limited TV content. While Charter has yet to name the service yet, last week [...]
Having a difficult time understanding why the economy is upside-down? Check out this video from Jonathan Jarvis which gives a wonderful visual overview of the credit crisis and explains how everything is connected. (Video is best viewed in HD and full-screen, of course.) The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. The Short [...]
I’ve made a sizable update to the WiFi Scan / Wardriving map adding nearly 1000 new points to the map from areas in Southern California. Though, for some reason, the new points are not showing on the web maps, but show when the KML file is loaded directly into Google Earth. I would figure out [...]
Buying used books online, at convenient outlets like eBay’s Half.com, is an relief to college students everywhere who are already cash-strapped thanks to ever-increasing tuition, fees, and abusive, self-perpetuating, overpriced textbook stores (I rant on textbook stores on an older blog). However, a student wishing to purchase books online must be spry. A required text [...]
Scientists and “experts” have been saying for years that California is due for another big earthquake. I’m sorry, but really?! I don’t know why we keep seeing news articles about some new research or findings saying California will have a large earthquake by some year. Considering California’s penchant for earthquakes I could tell you that [...]
I’ve recently come to realize that I can get very irritated at poor signage or “notices.” For example the below sign is posted at my workplace: I cannot understand the purpose of the quotations around the instructions posted on this sign. The purpose of the sign is to instruct you to do something. Taking off [...]
