I found wififreespot.com to be pretty complimentary to, say, jwire.com, which lists mainly commercial wi-fi providers, e.g., Starbucks, Kinkos, hotels, etc.
No idea on the accuracy of the listings, yet. All such listings should also have a last-verified-date to indicate a hotspot’s staleness, which Cleveland Wifi Wiki just put in.
Anyway, we’re going to be at [...]
The weather was the nicest it’s been in months, so last night’s judo attendance was low. Besides me, the instructor and an older black belt were the only ones on the mat when we bowed in. Sensei didn’t have a lesson plan on hand with so few people: the black belts had been [...]
Here’s a Wiki that compiles a listing of Cleveland Wifi Hotspots. This list distinguishes between free and not-free spots and at least has a verification column. It might be better if they had a “date verified” column, as the status might change (I’ll email the maintainer with that suggestion).
This was from the Cool [...]
Courtesy of this Lifehacker.com link, we have this browser security test that scans for browser vulnerabilities in IE, Firefox/Mozilla and Opera. I just upgraded Firefox to 1.0.2, but the scan did find that I was running a vulernable version of Java.
Taxes are all done except the mailing. I was able to E-File the Federal return, but have to mail in paper copies of the Ohio and New York state returns, because partial-year residents can’t E-File. As usual, there’s a Federal tax refund — mortgage interest deductions and all that — but I was [...]
Here’s a page with Really Useful Software for Nikon DSLRs. The main piece is a JPG extractor for pulling out the JPG embedded in Nikon’s NEF files. This saves a little bit of space on the camera, as you can shoot just RAW instead of RAW+JPG, saving about 15% on the CF card. [...]
This morning, we woke to NPR’s obituary and discussion of George Kennan, father of Cold War containment. This piece began by noting that Kennan regretted the costs of containment and establishes his genius by reviewing the Long Telegram and its place in history. NPR notes that this was a “relatively tough” policy against [...]
I’ve gotten my papers for a judo gokyu test (green belt; there’s no yellow belt). Interesting, there’s a written section where I have to describe the slogans, principles, etc., of Kodokan Judo. Thank god for Google, as the written part is a take home test: the WWW is my textbook.
For Gokyu, I have [...]
I got there a little late for Cleveland’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, apparently the last down Euclid Avenue because of expected construction of the Euclid Corridor Project later this year. I missed the head of the parade, but found a good perch on a first floor window sill at the under-reconstruction U.S. Court House [...]
It’s the last week of the semi-annual NPR pledge drive, and one thing I’ve noticed is that, over the years, the asked for pledge amounts have increased drastically. I remember when NPR or PBS would ask for $20 pledges as a first level. Granted, this was many years ago and inflation would have [...]