Archive for September, 2007

IBM Lotus Symphony Review

Monday, September 24th, 2007

I was excited when the news broke about IBM releasing their branch of OpenOffice as a free download. Not for the reason you think—yes, free is nice, but I wanted to see what they had done with the interface. Like different distributions of UNIX, I imagined all sorts of additional tweaks implemented by the crew [...]

Full Disclosure for Muni-WiFi

Friday, September 21st, 2007

June 12, 2005 was the date I wrote my first article about the Municipal WiFi problem. That article asked twenty-five questions that needed to be answered about Muni WiFi, many of which remain unanswered to this day.
I addressed the topic of money (business model) and Muni WiFi in March of 2006 with an article [...]

0-200mph—Who’s the Big Dog?

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Looking at the header of this website gives you an indication that I like cars, and I don’t deny it. I fell in love with cars at a very early age, and never looked back.
I have always preferred fast and straight, though, over going round and round, especially with the time investment at the [...]

links for 2007-09-01

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Blow as two ‘Muni WiFi’ schemes fail - Financial Times
(tags: muni_wifi)

Municipal WiFi in Trouble
(tags: muni_wifi)

Chicago: The Latest Muni Wi-Fi Casualty
(tags: muni_wifi)

Muni-Wi-Fi crashes and burns (and old-ad ’shopping)
(tags: muni_wifi)

Chicago’s decision to drop muni WiFi symptomatic of a troubled sector
(tags: muni_wifi)

Two Big US municipal Wi-Fi projects abandoned
(tags: muni_wifi)

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