Technology & MSG

When it comes to interpreting lots of data, I prefer visuals. The following two graphs represent almost ten years of data from my monthly cell phone bills, dating back to the summer of 2001.

I’m sure that there are all sorts of correlations that could be made from this data, but the first thing I saw [...]

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I keep notes about the places I go when I’m on travel, about experiences with vendors good and bad. While a particularly bad place might stand out in my mind, I may forget when a place is just sub-par. If you don’t travel, the following probably won’t be of much interest.
When it comes to profit, [...]

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I knew that a lot of my neighbors have recently subscribed to Verizon FiOS for their data and television needs, but today I realized that it’s more prevalent than I had originally thought. The evidence is clear by the number of ONTs mounted on the back of the houses, frequent sightings of hay left by [...]

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Leaving the grocery store yesterday, I walked past a women with long hair. She was loading groceries into her car’s trunk and talking as if she were in the middle of a conversation. She looked as me as I walked past and kept talking. Not to me, clearly.
A year or two ago I would have [...]

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I rarely use wireless when I’m in the house. So rarely that I’ve got it disabled on the router. When I came back from running some errands out, I forgot to disable my card. All of these are all being picked up in the basement. Last time I checked I could pickup 12-15 access points [...]

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DefendAir Radio Shield is a metal-laced paint that claims to block radio waves. The product is made by Force Field Wireless and was covered in Information Week (briefly this May, in depth in late 2004). The idea is that it will prevent wireless signals from coming in or out.

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