Archives: 2006 September
My mobile phone saga
September 28th, 2006, No Comments
I’ve used ATT for mobile service since 1995. In 2004, Cingular acquired the ATT wireless network and it’s been downhill ever since. My office is in downtown Dallas, where you’d think even the worst wireless company would have cell towers. At times over the last week my phone said “no service” while at [...]
mod_virgule and Advogato
September 28th, 2006, No Comments
I’ve spent the last week making a lot of mod_virgule tweaks to get my version of the codebase to the point it can run both Advogato and robots.net. My goal is to make the upcoming change-over to the new server and codebase as unnoticeable as possible to Advogato users. Keep you fingers crossed. Next up [...]
Websites come and websites go
September 7th, 2006, No Comments
O’Reilly shut down the wonderful Meerkat aggregator website a while back and now I see that Raph may be shutting down Advogato.
Yet another website I frequent, on the subject of Free/Open hardware, almost shut down in June. FreeIO.org has been run by Diehl Martin for years, providing GPL’d hardware designs. Unfortunately, Marty has pancreatic cancer [...]
