Archive for December, 2008

So many people are buzzing about this Youtube video as a testement to the dangers of cell phones.
Excerpt from Snopes.com - Cook Egg:
Claim: An egg (or popcorn) can be cooked by placing it between two cell phones.
Status: False
While it’s easy to say, “Don’t believe everything you hear”, it’s much harder to knock down things [...]

I took this screenshot a few weeks back because it looks like my car was sitting outside when the Google Rover came by to document the street I live on. It’s my 1990 325i BMW E30 2 door manual stick shift I drive around in. 23 miles to the gallon and about 168,000 [...]

Here’s a sample network diagram I did as part of a proposal for a company in Downtown Minneapolis that does stock trading. They were located in the Grain Exchange building and besides wanted to have additional users connect remotely, there were performance issues with the internet.
From the diagram, you can see that there are [...]

Today I was resetting the router of a client who has an office in Nantucket, MA. It turns out that this island is a good 30 miles from the mainland. The benefits are that many chain stores have not been able to break ground on this island but the downside is that Nantucket’s [...]