Team PAD set a new world record for a WiFi connection by achieving an unamplified 125 mile, 11Mbit connection for 3 hours. The team shot their signal a distance of 125 miles from outside Las Vegas, Nevada to a location near St. George, Utah. Kinda crazy, huh?
The Braves have been on a bit of a hot streak recently and it continued unabaited today as they pushed aside the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4 in a very close game to move 5 games clear of Washington in the NL East.
Yesterday we spend the majority of the afternoon/evening in Decatur celebrating Slingerdoo’s birthday which was a great time, though the intake of too much alcoholic drink left us taking MARTA home, and well… Less said about that the better I think.
Police believe all four 21 July London bomb suspects are now in custody after armed raids in the capital and Rome. Swift work by the Met there…
Miami attorney Jack Thompson claims cheat codes make EA’s life sim, The Sims 2, a pedophile’s paradise by showing genitalia; calls for ban on T-rated game. Seriously people, it’s just a computer game!
Remember I said Atlanta was in the grips of a horrificaly hot heatwave? Well, yesterday I decided it would be a good time to take in a game at Turner Field… A day game, in 90°+ temps, at least I wasn’t the only one as 40,000 people took a day off work to see the Braves sweep the Nationals to reclaim the top spot of the National League East Division.
HP has decided to stop reselling Apple’s popular iPod portable music player, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Friday. The two companies have reportedly confirmed that HP will immediately phase out sales of the iPod through its retail distribution partners, whom HP notified of the changes Thursday. “They’ve decided that reselling iPods doesn’t fit with their company’s current digital media strategy,” the Journal quoted Apple spokeswoman Katie Cotton as saying.
It was inevitable really, especially in this culture of lawsuits that we live in nowadays, but really, this has more holes in it than a pasta drainer!
Learn to play the guitar with Mr. Fastfingers, then put your axe skillz to the ultimate test. Guitar solo wankery at it’s best…
A Flickr member posts pictures of his recent brain surgery on his photostream. Not for the faint of heart…
As is the way of the world, I feel the need to pimp out a few items that make my life somewhat easier, and also cause it’s been a slow day blogging wise, well for me anyways…
100 things to do in Scotland before you die. Let’s see, I’ve done about 19 of them…
Seeing as the NHL is making a comeback in October, the powers that be have decided to give the old shield logo a 21st Century makover…
Today Yahoo! will announce the acquisition of Konfabulator, a Macintosh and Windows application that allows users to run mini files known as Widgets on their desktop. No price has been mentioned, but Yahoo! are on a buying frenzy as of late… It does mean that Konfabulator is completely free now.
I thought Nashville was warm the last few days, but today Atlanta is projected to reach 97°F today… But that’s not the kicker, thanks to the humidity, it’s going to feel around 114°F.
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