One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 8 November 2002

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Anger as arms firm sponsors Poppy Day. Media: A row is raging over the British Legion's decision to allow an arms manufacturer to sponsor this year's Remembrance Day. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Europe's mid-term crisis. World dispatch: The EU can check the actions of the rejuvenated Bush administration, says Simon Tisdall - it just needs the guts. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Pastrami and Wi-Fi: Schlotzsky's offers limited free service: The deli chain is providing free Wi-Fi in 10 stores as part of an experiment. I picked up on Schlotzsky's just in time to include them in a book that Adam Engst and I are delivering to our publisher next week called The Wireless Networking Starter Kit. (The News.com article from the link above misdefines hot spot, and probably way overestimates the number of wireless nodes. It's more likely that 15 million adapters (cards and access points) have been shipped, not nodes installed, and nodes aren't hot spots, which are publicly accessible locations.)

Excellent topic for a book right now. And good writers. Should sell well. I'll buy one.

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A rather confusing article which meanders around. I think they are trying to say that there are some threats to DVD-A and SACD becoming a success. I think they are saying that one problem is the copy protection schemes and lack of digital outputs. Another problem is poor audio quality of CD playback on SACD players. I think a much bigger problem is the fact that there are two formats competing for a market which is barely aware that either exists.