Linksys Security Enabled Routers aren't for everybody. Cisco should make securing their ubiquitous Linksys routers easier for Everyman. I'm not complaining, of course. I'm enjoying free Internet access throughout the week while supporting my little girl's after-school activities. During her piano lesson on Tuesdays I can jump on a Linksys in a neighboring condominium and while at soccer practice on Thursdays I can choose from 3 or 4 obliging routers on the Burlington South Side. To be honest, my router was open for probably a year until I created a family WEP key. I feel kind of bad about it being closed sometimes. Tonight my Comcast broadband connection was really sucky, for instance, so I jumped on my neighbor's DSL Linksys (I don't know which neighbor) and I was back in action. I should be able to reciprocate.
Google Chat for Family Unit post-it notes. My little girl is 10 years old and has a PC in her bedroom. It's the only Vista machine in the house and is the most powerful as well. She ran into my office after school today while I was still working, asking what song was playing on my PC. She wanted to add it to one of her Pandora stations. She suggested I open a Google chat session with her and paste in the name of the artist so she could copy it from her PC. 10 years old...
Song Intro from the Golden Age of Rock-n-Roll. Grand Funk's Survival Album was released in 1971 and I've been listening to it tonight. Since I mentioned a Tool intro a few days ago, I thought I'd share another intro that I always enjoyed. Here children are describing their concept of God in "I Can Feel Him in the Morning." "...and he can still see us when we're bad."
Man says JetBlue made him sit on toilet. Either the guy suing JetBlue is a jerk or the pilot is, but there's got to be more to this story. Here's an excerpt from the article, "Gokhan Mutlu, of Manhattan's Inwood section, says in court papers the pilot told him to "go 'hang out' in the bathroom" about 90 minutes into the San Diego to New York flight because the flight attendant complained that the 'jump seat' she was assigned was uncomfortable, the lawsuit said." This is yet another example why I'm happy to be a developer. As I always say, computers are easy. People are hard.
The Zune Clock Has Arrived!? I'm sorry, but the Zune should already have a clock. I shouldn't have to download and install XNA Game Studio Express on my Zune so it can tell me the time.
Inflicting my Nerdiness on my wife and daughter. I watched the first part of FDR - The American Experience on PBS this past Monday and kept thinking about it on Tuesday. I stupidly deleted the DVR recording, so I put it in our Netflix queue. It arrived today and I cajoled my wife and daughter to watch it with me. They're not as fascinated by it as I am, but they seem very interested in it so far. Maybe it's a nerd thing, but I think most of you will enjoy the chronicle of this great man's life as much as I do.