Warranty Replacement?

Read the story… I hope someone at Apple is over-nighting a brand new iPod to this Soldier.

Kontrib(ute) in English, Spanish, French and Arabic

Kontrib is a bookmarking service with a twist, it automatically converts all of the bookmarks into any of 4 languages. Very fast conversion as well. While English is the dominant language on the web, I consistently find interesting things in other languages that I am unable to accurately translate, so even if this service does [...]

Holy Chocolate

In the same week that the controversy over a chocolate Jesus gets stirred, we have another case of chocolate blasphemy, this time it is a chocolate replica of the McLaren F1 car. Is nothing sacred anymore?

Wonder How Many Macs Greenpeace Staffers Use?

I’m going to side with Apple on this one for a couple of reasons.

They have gone out of their way to inform me, as a customer, about battery recycling, to include prepaid mailers with battery replacements, and have minimal packaging.
Apple has a strong track record in their [...]

H-1B Insanity

Anne Broache reports that Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced a bill that imposes additional obligations on companies hiring foreigners. Among the requirements in the bill: * All companies must pledge that they made a "good faith effort" to hire American workers first and that an H-1B worker [...]

Teqlo Responds to Techfold

Techfold points out 5 things that we need to do to Teqlo to make it better. I posted over on the Teqlo blog my responses to the issues, which I agree are issues. On one hand it’s sobering to think of how much we still need to do, but on the other it’s relieving to [...]

aka “The Productivity Tax”

”Olivier Maingain, the mayor of Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, one of the 19 Brussels boroughs, is planning to tax all "antennas for the transmission of data". Each antenna will be taxed a staggering 4,000 euros per year. Such antennas are used for WiFi or WLAN, i.e. wireless internet or wireless networks over relatively short [...]

Municipal Wifi Through Sewage Lines

Google’s TiSP home wireless networking system is pretty cool. According to the installation information, the simple approach relies on dropping a weighted fiber optic line into you toilet to have it connect through the backbone running in your city’s sewage system. Brilliant. I would be concerned about brownouts though.

Tags: Google TiSP, April Fools

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