I’ve had an interest in the Tempe Arizona municiple WIFI system for a while. I will be putting information here as I find it. Feel free to add using the comment section! Access Point Hardware Supplier:  http://www.strixsystems.com/products/default.asp Transmit Power (802.11a/g/4.9): 26 dBm waztempe-access-point-datasheet_ows_2400.pdf Unlike most wireless networking systems, the Access Read more…
Sirius Satellite and XM need to merge in order to survive. There are alot of media outlets these days. Old fashioned radio, the internet are providing choices as never before. All the while XM and Sirius are losing money. Simple fact is there will be no satellite radio if they both go out of business. Both Read more…
I did alot of mountain biking in South Mountain park for a while. These are photos from that era. This is the trailhead at the end of the Jeep trail and the beginning of the National Trail / Mormon Loop. Me on the trail. You can watch the movie Read more…
If you have not used Panoramio yet it allows you to upload landscape / metroscape pictures to the website at http://www.panoramio.com/   After you have uploaded the photos you can enter coordinates or use google mapping functions to plot the points on Google Earth. Then other users can view your photos Read more…
This is a story told to me by a professor when I was doing my masters degree at ASU. I was in a class called “Signal Detection Theory” taught by my favorite professor of all time Doug Cochran. He was an eminently fair guy and a real sweetheart when it Read more…
A poem I came across on the internet: ITHACA By Constantine P. Cavafy, circa 1900 Translated from Greek by Daniel Mendelsohn As you set out on the way to Ithaca hope that the road is a long one, filled with adventures, filled with understanding. The Laestrygonians and the Cyclopes, Poseidon in Read more…
Do you assume that Paris’ porn tapes are not *reality TV* ? That they are sex tapes leaked by a money hungry cad ? I don’t. Long ago I came to the conclusion that all the *leaked* sex tapes like Tommy Lee and Pam Anderson were intended leaks meant to allow Read more…
I wrote an article a while back about how certain big online Amazon sellers tend to do a bait and switch. They list large numbers of books and they do not have alot of them. Then if they get an order they do not have they send ANYTHING hoping to Read more…
