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Entries from January 2008

Downtown WiFi, part 3. Confirmed.

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I have confirmed there is indeed wifi available downtown St Louis. My brother confirmed it when he walked past a technician installing an antenna, asked if this were indeed free wifi for the downtown area. The tech also stated that it is difficult trying to get decent range with all the building and etc. Very [...]

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Ruby, Rails, Mongrel.

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Ok … so with all the hoopla (good or bad) regarding Zed in the RoR community it seems like a few folks will be creating an alternative to Mongrel. This seems like mostly personal issue and not an issue with mongrel/mongrel_cluster itself. However, what I have been thinking someone (possibly myself) should fork mongrel [...]

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The Endless Search for a Laptop that Works …

January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Ok, as you already know I have been rolling a MacBook with Ubuntu. Things at the beginning were fine but eventually things just got plain annoying. The keyboard changes were dumb and I am tired of other MacCrap that I have dealt with. I am sure it’s fine while using OSX but I am [...]

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New Theme.

January 17th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s been a long, long time since I changed up the theme here on the blog. This blog has been around since 2004 and the theme hasn’t changed but a couple times. So here it is, with cool rotating photos!

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Downtown WiFi, part 2.

January 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I have a report that there does indeed seem to be free WiFi downtown now. There is a SSID of “ATTMETROWIFI” now available near the antenna locations. Cool beans!
Edit: there also seems to be a SSID of ATTMETROFREE, so perhaps one pay for service and one free service?

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