The new AT&T logo, the one created for SBC’s transformation back into AT&T, a process that rumors say might also swallow up Cingular (formerly AT&T Wireless), that new logo is, well, awful. Admittedly, the old AT&T logo has a bit of a PAN-AM feel to it, I can see that it certainly needed some updating, […]
Month: January 2006
Tales of the Golden Monkey
Today at lunch someone offhandedly mentioned the island of Bora-Bora, and I had a vivid flashback to Tales of the Golden Monkey, a TV series from 1982, starring Stephen Collins. I saw it on TV in Spain, dubbed, sometime in the mid-eighties, and even though it only ran one season, I loved it. So I […]
802.11n is real, film in 2007
It looks like the next generation wireless specification has finally made it out of committee. 802.11n promises up to 600 Mbps wireless data transfers (compared to 54 Mbps for 802.11g, the current specification). There were some politics preventing it, and some politics in the approval, and apparently some politics in the implementation, but the gist […]
Work work work work
I have paused my blogging to work. Today, I spent eleven and one half hours at work. About eleven of which were actually working. Oh woe is me. But really, it has been pretty intense since a couple of weeks before Christmas. Unfortunately, the end product (the end is Friday the 13th, upcoming) is nothing […]