As many of you know, Michele and I will be married at Lauxmont Farms in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania this coming spring. I see from my web stats that a good many people get to my web site searching for information on Lauxmont Farms and since their web site (www.lauxmontfarms.com) doesn’t have any pictures, I thought I [...]
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I have had a nagging problem for quite some time now on my Dell Latitude D600 laptop; when I try to play a DVD movie using InterVideo WinDVD 4, I would get an error that says “Create overlay failed. Lower your screen resolution or color depth and try again.” Being that I have always run [...]
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I found the article online at the Patriot-News site that prompted Scott Walker to respond to the editor. While the article does indeed give high hopes, it does very little to investigate the problems with BPL and glazes over the supposed “benefits” that would allegedly make the product viable vs. DSL or Cable. In what [...]
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Scott Walker, a New Cumberland (close to Harrisburg) resident, wrote to the Patriot-News in response to an article they ran recently on Broadband Over Power Lines. My friend Adam was kind enough to scan in page for me, and this is what Mr. Walker wrote in what I believe was the January 12th edition of [...]
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According to a news post on Slashdot about recently released FCC statistics, 94.3% of U.S. zip codes have broadband available to them. What does that mean exactly? It turns out that the statistic means nothing.
To understand this outrageously useless statistic, one must understand that the FCC considers one home that can get broadband within a [...]
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My Uncle, an Electronics Test Engineer and all-around brilliant guy who works for Patton Electronics, and I have been emailing back and forth recently about a last-mile broadband project I have been working on. In our most recent exchange, he mentioned problems surrounding a recently hyped (but historically problematic) technology commonly known as Broadband Over [...]
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I saw a very funny and tragically stupid sign today while sitting in the drive-thru at Burger King. It read…
“Picture menus available at window”
So… let’s explore this a little bit with real-life scenarios:
1) Let’s assume that I cannot read. If I cannot read, then I probably cannot drive and probably would not be in the [...]
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