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Cool Tech: Live- from "Chuck -E- Cheese's"
By Andrew Pollack on 08/24/2003 at 01:31 PM EDTIts Sunday afternoon, and I've got all the kids to watch. My youngest (4) has a birthday party to attend, being held in Portland at the "Chuck E Cheese's" pizza & playground place. This is a brightly colored, very loud, warehouse of a building filled with tables, bad music, mouse-like giant sized animatronic musicians, video games, climbing playgrounds, and bad pizza. Oh, and about 1000 kids.
What's redeeming, is that while the kids are playing, I can sit and work, read, study -- whatever. The place has enough security that I don't need to worry about someone walking off with my kids -- unless they can fake the U.V. hand stamps or bull past the 16 year old 80 pound blonde girl at the door.
So, how am I'm wring to you? My laptop now has wireless net access thanks to Verizon Wireless. It claims to be 'high speed' -- and its definitely better than a digital phone used with a serial port as a modem. In practice, its a bit faster than using a modem from a hotel room on a dial-up line. That doesn't tell the whole story though. What's REALLY cool is that it works nearly everywhere. I have yet to be in truckstop on major highway, an airport, a town, anywhere in the US where I couldn't instantly be online. I can replicate my Notes data while walking from gate to gate in any airport -- just start the process, close the laptop, and re-open it when I get where I'm going. The exception to this, is Northern Maine. That starts about 20 miles North of where I live, and frankly the electronic world pretty much ends. Nextel phones stop working 5 miles from me, by 25 miles north if you don't have an analog capable phone, you're SOL.
Ah well. We're getting there.
re: Cool Tech: Live- from "Chuck -E- Cheese's"By Ben Langhinrichs on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
sorry. Was bugware in the blogware. Fixed now, I think.By Andrew Pollack on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
re: Cool Tech: Live- from "Chuck -E- Cheese's"By Rob McDonagh on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
:
Hey Andrew,
Count me among those who would be interested in seeing the code behind your
blog. I know you write good code, so I'd be curious what you came up with.
I'm going to be blogging myself, and I'm leaning towards the BlogSphere
template, but there are quite a few things I'm not thrilled with in the code so
I'm toying with the idea of writing my own. I'd rather not, though, so I'll
probably just wade through BlogSphere until I'm more comfortable with it. But
I'm interested in your experience building your own - is that a possible future
blog topic?
One gripe, though - I can't see any way to locate previous postings (no
archive). Is that deliberate, or are there just not any other postings yet?
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in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Its Sunday afternoon, and I've got all the kids to watch. My youngest (4) has a
birthday party to attend, being held in Portland at the "Chuck E Cheese's"
pizza & playground place. This is a brightly colored, very loud, warehouse of a
building filled with tables, bad music, mouse-like giant sized animatronic
musicians, video games, climbing playgrounds, and bad pizza. Oh, and about 1000
kids. What's redeeming, is that while the kids are playing, I can sit and work,
read, study -- whatever. The place has enough security that I don't need to
worry about someone walking off with my kids -- unless they can fake the U.V.
hand stamps or bull past the 16 year old 80 pound blonde girl at the door. So,
how am I'm wring to you? My laptop now has wireless net access thanks to
Verizon Wireless. It claims to be 'high speed' -- and its definitely better
than a digital phone used with a serial port as a modem. In practice, its a
bit faster than using a modem from a hotel room on a dial-up line. That doesn't
tell the whole story though. What's REALLY cool is that it works nearly
everywhere. I have yet to be in truckstop on major highway, an airport, a town,
anywhere in the US where I couldn't instantly be online. I can replicate my
Notes data while walking from gate to gate in any airport -- just start the
process, close the laptop, and re-open it when I get where I'm going. The
exception to this, is Northern Maine. That starts about 20 miles North of where
I live, and frankly the electronic world pretty much ends. Nextel phones stop
working 5 miles from me, by 25 miles north if you don't have an analog capable
phone, you're SOL. Ah well. We're getting there.
Hey Andrew,
Count me among those who would be interested in seeing the code behind your
blog. I know you write good code, so I'd be curious what you came up with.
I'm going to be blogging myself, and I'm leaning towards the BlogSphere
template, but there are quite a few things I'm not thrilled with in the code so
I'm toying with the idea of writing my own. I'd rather not, though, so I'll
probably just wade through BlogSphere until I'm more comfortable with it. But
I'm interested in your experience building your own - is that a possible future
blog topic?
One gripe, though - I can't see any way to locate previous postings (no
archive). Is that deliberate, or are there just not any other postings yet?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Its Sunday afternoon, and I've got all the kids to watch. My youngest (4) has a
birthday party to attend, being held in Portland at the "Chuck E Cheese's"
pizza & playground place. This is a brightly colored, very loud, warehouse of a
building filled with tables, bad music, mouse-like giant sized animatronic
musicians, video games, climbing playgrounds, and bad pizza. Oh, and about 1000
kids. What's redeeming, is that while the kids are playing, I can sit and work,
read, study -- whatever. The place has enough security that I don't need to
worry about someone walking off with my kids -- unless they can fake the U.V.
hand stamps or bull past the 16 year old 80 pound blonde girl at the door. So,
how am I'm wring to you? My laptop now has wireless net access thanks to
Verizon Wireless. It claims to be 'high speed' -- and its definitely better
than a digital phone used with a serial port as a modem. In practice, its a
bit faster than using a modem from a hotel room on a dial-up line. That doesn't
tell the whole story though. What's REALLY cool is that it works nearly
everywhere. I have yet to be in truckstop on major highway, an airport, a town,
anywhere in the US where I couldn't instantly be online. I can replicate my
Notes data while walking from gate to gate in any airport -- just start the
process, close the laptop, and re-open it when I get where I'm going. The
exception to this, is Northern Maine. That starts about 20 miles North of where
I live, and frankly the electronic world pretty much ends. Nextel phones stop
working 5 miles from me, by 25 miles north if you don't have an analog capable
phone, you're SOL. Ah well. We're getting there.
re: re: Cool Tech: Live- from "Chuck -E- Cheese's"By Andrew Pollack on 06/23/2004 at 11:21 AM EDT
:
Rob - I'm not sure what you mean. There's a view below the "story" document
that lists all the stories in the Blog. I only started the blog with actual
live stories late last week. There are just a few so far.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hey Andrew, Count me among those who would be interested in seeing the code
behind your blog. I know you write good code, so I'd be curious what you came
up with. I'm going to be blogging myself, and I'm leaning towards the
BlogSphere template, but there are quite a few things I'm not thrilled with in
the code so I'm toying with the idea of writing my own. I'd rather not, though,
so I'll probably just wade through BlogSphere until I'm more comfortable with
it. But I'm interested in your experience building your own - is that a
possible future blog topic? One gripe, though - I can't see any way to locate
previous postings (no archive). Is that deliberate, or are there just not any
other postings yet? in response to Its Sunday afternoon, and I've got all the
kids to watch. My youngest (4) has a birthday party to attend, being held in
Portland at the "Chuck E Cheese's" pizza & playground place. This is a brightly
colored, very loud, warehouse of a building filled with tables, bad music,
mouse-like giant sized animatronic musicians, video games, climbing
playgrounds, and bad pizza. Oh, and about 1000 kids. What's redeeming, is that
while the kids are playing, I can sit and work, read, study -- whatever. The
place has enough security that I don't need to worry about someone walking off
with my kids -- unless they can fake the U.V. hand stamps or bull past the 16
year old 80 pound blonde girl at the door. So, how am I'm wring to you? My
laptop now has wireless net access thanks to Verizon Wireless. It claims to be
'high speed' -- and its definitely better than a digital phone used with a
serial port as a modem. In practice, its a bit faster than using a modem from
a hotel room on a dial-up line. That doesn't tell the whole story though.
What's REALLY cool is that it works nearly everywhere. I have yet to be in
truckstop on major highway, an airport, a town, anywhere in the US where I
couldn't instantly be online. I can replicate my Notes data while walking from
gate to gate in any airport -- just start the process, close the laptop, and
re-open it when I get where I'm going. The exception to this, is Northern
Maine. That starts about 20 miles North of where I live, and frankly the
electronic world pretty much ends. Nextel phones stop working 5 miles from me,
by 25 miles north if you don't have an analog capable phone, you're SOL. Ah
well. We're getting there.
Rob - I'm not sure what you mean. There's a view below the "story" document
that lists all the stories in the Blog. I only started the blog with actual
live stories late last week. There are just a few so far.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
in response to
------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hey Andrew, Count me among those who would be interested in seeing the code
behind your blog. I know you write good code, so I'd be curious what you came
up with. I'm going to be blogging myself, and I'm leaning towards the
BlogSphere template, but there are quite a few things I'm not thrilled with in
the code so I'm toying with the idea of writing my own. I'd rather not, though,
so I'll probably just wade through BlogSphere until I'm more comfortable with
it. But I'm interested in your experience building your own - is that a
possible future blog topic? One gripe, though - I can't see any way to locate
previous postings (no archive). Is that deliberate, or are there just not any
other postings yet? in response to Its Sunday afternoon, and I've got all the
kids to watch. My youngest (4) has a birthday party to attend, being held in
Portland at the "Chuck E Cheese's" pizza & playground place. This is a brightly
colored, very loud, warehouse of a building filled with tables, bad music,
mouse-like giant sized animatronic musicians, video games, climbing
playgrounds, and bad pizza. Oh, and about 1000 kids. What's redeeming, is that
while the kids are playing, I can sit and work, read, study -- whatever. The
place has enough security that I don't need to worry about someone walking off
with my kids -- unless they can fake the U.V. hand stamps or bull past the 16
year old 80 pound blonde girl at the door. So, how am I'm wring to you? My
laptop now has wireless net access thanks to Verizon Wireless. It claims to be
'high speed' -- and its definitely better than a digital phone used with a
serial port as a modem. In practice, its a bit faster than using a modem from
a hotel room on a dial-up line. That doesn't tell the whole story though.
What's REALLY cool is that it works nearly everywhere. I have yet to be in
truckstop on major highway, an airport, a town, anywhere in the US where I
couldn't instantly be online. I can replicate my Notes data while walking from
gate to gate in any airport -- just start the process, close the laptop, and
re-open it when I get where I'm going. The exception to this, is Northern
Maine. That starts about 20 miles North of where I live, and frankly the
electronic world pretty much ends. Nextel phones stop working 5 miles from me,
by 25 miles north if you don't have an analog capable phone, you're SOL. Ah
well. We're getting there.
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