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WiFi and whatnot. . .I was surfing around reading about the new Centrino technology from Intel. It's a package that includes a new Pentium M processor and integrated wireless technology (802.11b for the geeks). It's the next wave of improvement for mobile computing, and also supposed to improve battery life by including both better batteries and less power suck. If it really works, it's a giant step forward, in my opinion, because shitty battery life has been the weakness of laptops and notebooks. And the sociological phenomenon that rose up around wireless is even more interesting, check out Warchalking. It's the modern version of hobo symbols from the Depression, letting wireless mobile netsurfers know where they can jump onto networks for free. Along with the Centrino hardware is coming Hotspots, public wireless web access for your WiFi-enabled gear. Of course Starbucks is all over that bandwagon. Personally, I prefer Panera.
posted by cat mcconnell 9:04 AM
Sunday, March 30, 2003
When you live in the country, the weather is not just small talk, hence the focus of many a blog over the past few months. Well here it is, nearly April, we've had numerous days well into the 70's for the past month. The light green and yellow of spring are everywhere, trees are budding and the daffodils and forsythia are in bloom. But look what appears this morning
And the WeatherBug says we're supposed to get 5"-10" by this evening in Preston and Garrett counties.
posted by cat mcconnell 8:58 AM
Sunday, March 02, 2003
It's 37 degrees, and chunks of my driveway are revealing themselves for the first time in months. We saw an interesting sight on the way home from work on Friday, check it out: As we approach the turn for my road, we see a couple of cars are nearly stopped. There are 3 horses in the road, walking around. The cars are trying to carefully go around the horses. Someone has a bucket of something the horses apparently like to eat, and is trying to get the horses off the road. We slowly turn onto our road, and go up my driveway. No camera, so no photos, unfortunately.
posted by cat mcconnell 1:44 PM