… has got to be sneaking into a computer lab at the University of Manitoba in highschool (around ’95 or ’96) with a couple of friends to play Warcraft II:Tides of Darkness over their IPX network. The worst part was, because the machines were ghosted (or some archiac version of ghost) on boot up, we had to… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: November 2008
Google: Now With Forum Detection
Today I noticed that google is now recognizing forum threads and returning related data in the search results. Note the “5 Posts — 4 Authors — Last Post: 18 Apr” Pretty cool.
Boingo: The Best $10 I’ve Ever Spent
Last week I was stuck at O’hare overnight. I noticed a bunch of large signs proclaiming “free wi-fi terminal wide.” Upon trying to connect to the internet, I discovered that these hotspots were run by boingo and only “free” for customers of certain telcos. While I feel that wifi is an amenity that should always be free, like public restrooms,… Read more »