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Friday, August 11th, 2006

Ford announces plans to ditch gas caps
there’s one less item to replace
(tags: cars ford)

Cool Calvin and Hobbes Collection
this appears to be the ultimate collection.
courtesy userfriendly.org
(tags: comics funny)

One by one, penguins begin road to recovery
good news on the texas penguins, and no that’s not a sports team

Diane Sawyer tops poll of most popular TV personalities
one question [...]

Skype Slips Into Business

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I have been a fan of Skype since last year when I was talking to Denmark several times for interviews for Motivation on the Run. Today I use it for work, from the home office, rather than tie up the home line.
It works extremely well, most of the time, and the call quality is [...]

GM revives Chevrolet Camaro muscle car

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

General Motors makes it official today. They will re-introduce the Camaro in 2009. That is a long wait, but for heavy-duty Chevrolet fans, it will breeze by quickly.
The best part is that the styling will stay very close to the concept car Chevrolet showed at the car shows earlier this year. Even though I’m not [...]

INEOS Increases Presence in League City

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

I attended this big announcement yesterday at the Marina View building in League City and I want to extend my heart-felt congratulations to everyone involved in this endeavor. In my spare time I volunteer with the League City Economic Development Corporation and chair one of the committees.
This was another huge win for League City [...]

Muni Wi-Fi: Not Free For All

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

BusinessWeek writer, Olga Kharif, has a quick piece on cities now working to determine the best way to monitize their Muni WiFi projects. It seems most businesses aren’t to anxious to jump into advertising on the networks until the number of subscribers reaches legitimate numbers. The legitimate numbers require the systems up and running to [...]

2007 Ford Shelby GT 500

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

It just keeps getting better and better the closer we get to the release of the new Shelby.
One way to keep motivated is to post a picture of something you want. I have made this my computer wallpaper and at times catch myself just staring at it. Man is this a good looking car.
My [...]

New Muni WiFi Models

Friday, August 4th, 2006

I’m already impressed with this approach to building out a WiFi network to cover a large area. The whole article has lots of good information, but the quoted sentences will tell you that this project is destined to succeed.
This will be the one to watch as it moves forward toward completion.
Unstrung - Mobile Applications - [...]

Earthlink Wins Another One

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Earthlink has won another selection process to build out a Muni WiFi network for the City of Pasadena, California. This will be a for profit wireless network with special discounts for needs-based people.
Unstrung - WLANs/WiFi/802.11 - Earthlink to Build Muni WiFi - Wireless Networking News Wire
ATLANTA — EarthLink (NASDAQ: ELNK - message board), [...]

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