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beSpacific points to this Wall Street Journal article about wireless access in hotels, its growing popularity, and charges.

The radio show Weekend America discusses the search for and use of open wireless networks, including some of the legal issues in today’s program.

Because of a pricing dispute, Cogent Communications Group and Level 3 Communications, major Internet service providers, are at odds with each other. Level 3 stopped allowing some customers to access Web sites or send e-mail to customers on Cogent. The government currently does not regulate Internet activities of this kind, so there is no guarantee [...]

Thanks to Hugh’s reminder, I read his list on how to have smarter conversations. The list is good advice for anyone, but I especially appreciate some of the points as being words of wisdom for doing better presentations.
I hadn’t thought about number 4 as being a reason to blog. It’s great and something I will [...]

I remembered late Friday I needed to complete and return my nomination form for Who’s Who in America by Monday. Even though typing was a bit painful, I managed to cut and paste most of what they wanted from my resume into their online form and submit it yesterday.
It reminded me a bit of blogging: [...]

A very kind mother passed along this article about letterboxing from Sunday’s Boston Globe.

Here’s a nice healthy dose of motivation.

I found someone who might be able to make some buttons for us.
*j rubs hands together with glee
What do you think?
She also offers some writing buttons. The librarian button is in the geek category. I love it!

is what I received tonight when talking to Avi. He and his son, Jonathan, began the hobby about a year ago. It involves getting some clues from a Web site to a box’ location and finding a box. Inside the box is usually a journal and a stamp. You carry your own notebook and stamp [...]