Archive for the ‘Computers and Internet’ Category

Decent Cable Modem Internet Connection Speeds here in Southern California . . .

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Speed Test of Cable Modem

Free text messages from a web browser

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Even though my mobile phone plan includes a pretty decent number of text messages, sometimes it would be nice to be able to type messages using my computer keyboard.  It just seems silly to use the phone to 'type' messages using iTap when I'm sitting at a full-sized qwerty keyboard.  I stumbled across this web site that lets me send free text messages from my web browser, which may come in handy at times.  The cell phone carriers provide a similar web-based interface, but at least on Cingular's web site you have to log in and you can only send messages to other Cingular customers. 

“The End of Intel”

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

The recent dip in stock price has been a bit worrisome, but I'm still confident that hanging onto my Intel stock will turn out to be a good investment.  This Motley Foll article sums up the current situation pretty well: "The End of Intel".

Google Calendar

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Google Calendar is now live.  I've been missing having access to a calendar server.  I'm going to have to give this a test drive.  I've been meaning to install a calendar server on Brightrock.com for quite a while, but it's a non-trivial kind of project. 

This PowerBook will autodestruct in sixty seconds…

Monday, February 27th, 2006

Mike Hon has a post about a cool way to protect your data in the event that somebody steals your laptop. A little risky unless you really know what you’re doing, but I could see this being appropriate in some situations. 

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