The Slurpr WiFi aggregator: up to 324Mbps broadband for "free"

The Dutch have the best DJs and I guess the best hackers. This is a killer invention. To me, this is what bittorrent technology will do for all of us ultimately. Combine all of our FiOS lines into a massive bandwidth channel enabling everyone to have their own HD television channel broadcast (narrowcasted) from their house!



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Del Valle Bike Ride

Nice lazy Sunday afternoon bike ride. There are great spots to buy cherries and strawberries along the ride. You can smell the strawberries as you ride.

20 Mile Bike Ride Through Alameda

Who Says you can't get a 20 mile bike ride through the Island of Alameda, California?

New Exclusive Transformers Trailer

Yahoo! Movies just dropped the new trailer for Transformers. First reaction: school girl giddiness. Second reaction: Ok, there isn’t too much in here that we haven’t seen before, but I still like it.OK, I'm ready to buy it. At first, I thought that Michael Bay was going to mess the movie all up, but now I think it will be action packed, basically a robotic independence day. That is OK. I like ID4 as a reference disc. I'll like Transformers as a reference disk too!



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Bike Ride from Fremont Bart to Foster City

This is my long bike ride to foster city from home. Basically I take BART from Fruitvale down to Fremont and then ride over. I have averaged 15 MPH so the ride takes 2 hours. Surprisingly this method is the same amount of time as riding BART up and over the bay, with the added benefit of double the riding time as well as being slightly cheaper.




For a while I looked for a good route over the Dumbarton bridge, the first I tried was from Union City BART, but I either ended up on the highway or got turned around and went the wrong direction because it is too complicated at the other end.

At the end you'll see that I have the path going over what appears to be nothing. There is actually something there, its a trail that takes you basically from Oracle to Edgewater Drive in Foster City. My ride avoids El Camino Real and is very flat.

I hope this helps anyone who is trying to find their way to work in Foster City via bike from the east bay.

Amazon officially announces long-rumored DRM-free music store

Amazon announced this morning that it plans to launch a music store later this year that will sell unprotected MP3 files from thousands of record labels.Outstanding, it appears that the music industry is finally starting to get it. Now if only I could download the music in OggVorbis format, I'd be ecstatic.



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Volkswagen busted for using 'hidden text' to spam Google

Volkswagen was recently found to be using hidden text on its web pages in an effort to increase their Google exposure. Unlike the rest of us Google 'helped' them fix the issue rather than drop them into supplementary hell! Must be nice to have friends in high places?Well, the guy can't spell, but he has a valid point. Why wasn't Volkswagen de-listed and thrown in the sandbox? They shouldn't get customized help from them. Google's search is very, very broken.



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Was Philadelphia's draft a "Whoops", or was it genious

Its always hard to determine whether the actions a genius takes are brilliant, and if they indeed are, a genius, or if they are simply crazy or foolish. Joe Banner and Andy Reid's drafting of a quarterback in their first pick could be crazy or a stroke of genius. Kevin Kolb may be a good quarterback, but I am not sure this is a good draft for the Eagles for some political reasons. Not to mention that giving up a first round pick for this guy, must mean that he is some kind of good. At least we hope that's what it means.

Did the Eagles take a vote of "no-confidence" in Donovan McNabb? I don't think so. I think they are taking out a little insurance. No one in Philly is saying, but typically if your quarterback has what 4 of the last 5 seasons where he has season ending injuries, you have to start wondering how much gas they have left in the tank. How much more bashing can Don's body take? I think Philly doesn't want to be left holding the bag. If Kolb is as good as we all hope he is, I think that Philly is thinking that if Donovan is forced to retire in the next two seasons, they will have a great backup ready to take the reins. If he doesn't, then they can parley him into a first round draft choice to pick up someone they need.

I still don't agree with losing a first round draft pick and giving your rival a chance to pick up their need. Dallas got exactly what they wanted, Philly, I'm not sure what they've got. Donovan McNabb is arguably in the top 3 quarterbacks in the NFL. You've got to give a guy like that a chance. Feely isn't bad, he is good enough to handle the duties while Donovan recuperates, he has proven that. I think Philly has made a "Whoops," because they are making Donovan feel insecure, even though he is a class guy and isn't commenting on it, they shouldn't be doing that to the best quarterback in Philly history...

McNabb's treatment should trouble Kolb

News Stories with the same title

Its interesting that while on the web, we think that we are getting the most diverse news in the world, and I'd agree that its out there, but in fact, they all seem to be drinking from the same kool-aid as it were.

Check out this link (http://www.bothsidesofastory.com) and look at the headlines of AMD tries to scoop Intel's Santa Rosa launch. There are three stories that have the exact same headline with slight variations. I guess they are all just taking the associated press feed, but it is still slightly disturbing

CSS Reset Reloaded

Eric Meyer, CSS Guru gives us a run down on some extreme CSS Reset. Think of these as a starting point for creating your own defaults, in addition to being a way to illuminate the nature of browser defaults. Simply the act of taking those defaults into consideration and thinking about them closely puts you ahead of 99% of your peers.



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I think that this is awesome, and will really help with browsers that make assumptions about how developers want their pages to render, but at the same time it is a shame that we have to do this at all.

The strict doctype was established to tell the browser, "hey, I know what I am doing, don't add padding or anything." Its a shame that the doctype is mostly ignored by many browsers. At the same time in defense of the browsers, I see plenty of times where people are misusing the doctype by claiming strict, but their site does not even come close to validating.