Surfing The Web So You Don't Have To
With it now trivial to install Mac OS X on a PC, you’re paying over a grand for that Apple logo with its prettier facade and better support. Is that extra $1,000+ worth it? For some, it might be. For me, I’m poor.
Read the linked article’s comments, as the Mac fanboys are out in force.
It’s geekdom link dump time.
OK, that’s enough for now.
That’s the rumor that’s floating around.
Lance Armstrong will come out of retirement next year to compete in five road races with the Astana team, according to sources familiar with the developing situation.
Armstrong, who turns 37 this month, will compete in the Amgen Tour of California, Paris-Nice, the Tour de Georgia, the Dauphiné Libéré and the Tour de France — and will race for neither salary nor bonuses, the sources, who asked to remain anonymous, told VeloNews.
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According to sources, the Texan will post all of his internally tested blood work online, in an attempt to establish complete transparency and prove that he is a clean athlete.
Apparently. Not like it matters to me at all as A) I don’t drink coffee, and B) The only thing I really like at Starbucks is their tea, and it certainly ain’t worth the price.
So I haven’t gotten online once since last Wednesday after a small trip to the coast for the weekend to help build a deck at my grandma’s beach house. Among the highlights in my fully-packed inbox upon my return:
I haven’t gotten through all my email or my local blogs yet. It does appear that a local blog did make it into the paper, showing even more how Bend Blogs are getting read by the local media (the Bulletin’s IP address is easily BendBlogs.com’s biggest reader, which is fine as it’s a great source for local information and commentary).
Anything else I missed over the last few days?
Update on 8/26: Full BendBroadband press release after the jump.
Bend community low-power radio station KPOV has been awarded a full-power FCC license. Congrats to them, as they’re a great bunch of folks and it’ll be great for them to get their station out there more. When they get everything all built up, they’ll be broadcasting on 88.9 FM instead of their current 106.7.
Why does 88.9 sound familiar? As I’ve mentioned before, 88.9 is used by KWAX — a University of Oregon-based classical music station — as a local translator. Since KPOV was awarded this license, KWAX has to quit broadcasting on that frequency when KPOV goes live on the new channel. KWAX already broadcasts locally on 88.5 out of Redmond and 90.1 out of Sunriver, but neither of those translators came in as good as the 88.9 out of Bend (I’m a classical music guy, and like KWAX’s programming).
So I e-mailed the folks at KWAX, and asked them what their plan was for the Bend translator. Their response:
We have one more application to get through the FCC and will then have permission to build the identical facility we have now, but on 98.9. You should notice no difference in the quality or coverage of the translator after the frequency change. We hope to have it completed by the end of the summer, well in advance of the new station beginning operation.
Good to hear they’ll still have a good solid Bend translator, and congrats to the KPOV folks!
Been getting behind on my link sharing, so here are a few older links of all sorts:
More later. I need to sleep.
Even if you wanted a couch made of a coffin, without supplemental furniture to go with it, what’s the point?
For the geeks (like me) out there, enjoy! (And even if you’re not a geek, there is something you’ll enjoy here, I’m sure).
