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Freedom, Democracy, and Broadband Providers
We’ve known for years that the United States is working hard to fall way behind in international broadband access rankings. In my home state of Minnesota, we are witness to a live demonstration of the process that fuels our precipitous decline. A few years back, the City of Montecello asked its incumbent telecomm provider if they would please roll out Fiber to the Premise (FTTP) service. When the company declined, Montecello got support from its citizens to build out their own community-owned Fibre Optic Broadband network. Montecello is now being duly punished for having dared to challenge its corporate overlords.
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I Hate Google … Play
I just wanted to upgrade an app on my Android ‘phone, but Google wouldn’t let me.
When I tried, I ran into a roadblock backed by a phalanx of lawyers with their swords drawn. What should have been a simple tap on the screen became a battle that I didn’t ask to fight, and was destined to lose.
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jCIFS in the Wild
jCIFS Finds a Niche in the Smartphone Ecosystem
If a “dog year” is equivalent to six or seven human years, then a “smartphone year” is pushing thirty. Smartphones age quickly—faster than dogs and much faster than humans—but smartphone dotage has more to do with the overtaking pace of feature enhancements than it does with hardware actually getting old and wearing out. 
The newer models consistently have more memory, more storage, more CPU power, …and more buzz than a swarm of hyperactive piezoelectric bumblebees.
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Samba in the Wild
For Samba fans who also like Japanese cuisine…
Sign seen on the streets of Chicago.
El Hotel Inepto
A boomerang business trip brought me to San Jose California last week to talk to a very cool company about some very interesting projects. I was in town overnight, so they put me up at the Hotel Sierra. Very swanky, in a vodka-advertisement-aimed-at-young-adults kind of way. Not my thing, but the room was very nice and a night away from home offered me the exceptional pleasure of being able to sleep without a cat trying to climb backwards up my left nostril.
I have only one complaint…
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My Smiling Face
I was interviewed for a Wired Magazine blog entry recently, which is way-cool. It’s not every day that I make it into the news. They wanted a picture, so I gave them two and they decided to use the head-shot. They also decided to post it large-sized.
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On the Brink of the Networked Society?
I came across this video via LinkedIn and TechChrunch. It was produced by Ericsson, a company that is celebrating its 135th birthday today.
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