Month: October 2005

Connect to Multiple WiFi Networks at Once

I actually have a few different access points accessible from my home, so I’ll try this later tonight, but this is pretty dang cool:

VirtualWiFi is a virtualization architecture for wireless LAN (WLAN) cards. It abstracts a single WLAN card to appear as multiple virtual WLAN cards to the user. The user can then configure each virtual card to connect to a different wireless network. Therefore, VirtualWiFi allows a user to simultaneously connect his machine to multiple wireless networks using just one WLAN card. This new functionality introduced by VirtualWiFi enables many new applications, which were not possible earlier using a single WLAN card.

Hat tip to Greg for the link.

October 19, 2005

Free SharePoint Applications

I’m experimenting with SharePoint a bit here at the office, just to see what it can do, and I came across this on Greg’s site for a pile of free SharePoint templates for those of us who are not really in the mood to create all of this stuff from scratch. I’m mostly bookmarking this here for my reference, but it might be handy to a couple people who read this site.

October 18, 2005

Changes in Lord Of The Rings: George Lucas Edition

If George Lucas were to remake the Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy, I wouldn’t be surprised to see these changes.

October 18, 2005

How To Sell A Bulldozer

If you’re a programmer at Yahoo! and have a bit of time your hands and an company-wide e-mail list, this is how you sell a bulldozer.

October 18, 2005

Just Like A Woman

Except for it’s actually a 100-pound sex doll that some really messed up men are shelling out $6,500 for instead of actually trying to date a real woman. Just read some of the quotes from some of the odd-ball folks who purchased them in this Salon.com story (just sit through the advert). Quoting one guy in the story: his Real Doll is a “teddy bear with benefits.” Oh my…

Thanks Barn for the link.

October 17, 2005

Journalistic Sensationalism At Its Finest

I missed this as I don’t watch the Today Show, but a few mornings ago (Friday, apparently), Michelle Kosinski, reporting on location about the floods in New Jersey. Kosinski was canoeing in what looked to be in deep water but as the segment went on, two workers walked right in front of her in what looked to be about three or four inches of water. Priceless video here and other story links if that one dies.

I’m just glad that Katie Couric and Matter Lauer laughed about the whole thing.

October 17, 2005

Eugene to Host 2008 Olympic Trials

I remember reading last week about how Eugene was trying to pull this off after hosting Olympic trials back in the 70s and 80s. But after seeing dozens of meets at Hayward Field, I’m glad to see that Eugene will once again be Track Town, USA. Hat tip to Rob for the tip, though I linked to the local paper in Eugene instead of USA Today.

Congrats to the City of Eugene and the University of Oregon for landing this great event. Now where can I buy tickets? I’m a track junkie (ran distance events in high school and college), and really want an excuse to make a trip back to Eugene for a meet.

October 17, 2005

Yes, I Know Hermiston Has A Big Wi-Fi Cloud

I actually knew and posted over two months ago, so please quit sending me this link or this link or any variation of the story.

And also of note: For those that aren’t familiar with Oregon’s geography, no I’m not close enough to get a signal (Hermiston is over 200 miles from here and the current record for unamplified Wi-Fi is 125 miles).

October 17, 2005

Well That Sucks

I busted my butt this evening to get some things done around the house so I could get some links posted tonight. I went through all my RSS feeds during my lunch break at work, so I had lots of good links. So I get home this evening, I sit down to hook up my laptop and discover I left my AC adapter in Sunriver. While that wouldn’t be a problem for most people who own laptops (considering they’re built to run off batteries) it is for me as my battery connection is shot and I haven’t had a chance to RMA the thing to get it repaired.

And since I haven’t had a chance to setup the online sychronization in FeedDemon yet, I’m pretty much out of luck here.

So (hopefully) links coming tomorrow, assuming I don’t take a bat to my laptop.

(Oh, and I know my e-mail contact form on this page is broken, giving ugly PHP errors. I’ll fix that tomorrow as well, as I’m on my wife’s computer right now, and doing PHP work is tricky on this system. Notepad just isn’t that clean and easy for me as I’m not a PHP whiz like some people and need my editor’s color coding. Update on 10/17: E-mail form fixed.)

October 16, 2005

7000th Comment Posted

Nothing really exciting about the comment, really, but I did want to point out that is was the 7000th published comment on this site — which means I’ve deleted 5046 other ones at one point or another because they were either spam or duplicates.

And yes, I know I haven’t posted much the last few days. I’ve been a bit under the weather and swamped with projects both at work and at home. I promise I’ll get some stuff posted soon but for those folks e-mailing asking if I’ve died, don’t worry, I haven’t (and like’d I’d be able to e-mail you back if I did).

October 15, 2005