Not a news flash to some, but perhaps others: the 802.11g spec, poorly referred to as “54 mbps” is really a measure of best possible radio speed, and not real data throughput in a real situation. Follow the link for Slashdot’s like to an O’Reilly article with the details. Like “56k” modems, althought perhaps even [...]
Interesting conversation going on at Jason Kottke’s site on RSS 1.0 and 2.0. As a feed provider, my primary concern is shipping out content to the most consumers, and if I need to use two formats to do that, that’s fine. My use of RSS 1.0 will be pretty limited to cutting and pasting similar [...]
Back in New Hampshire, gaining yet another travel story. Not the horror stories of 18 hours trapped in Buffalo or others I’ve heard, just the minor, dragging out annoyance of thunderstorms and delays and uncertainty and waiting and waiting. Arriving at midnight is just so much more late, psychologically, than 10:30 PM. Glad to be [...]
