XOHM has installed the first WiMAX network in a major city in the United States – too bad it’s in Baltimore instead of Washington, DC where I am. WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) refers to a standard designed to provide high-bandwidth wireless services on a metropolitan scale – think public WiFi on steriods.  Reportedly, [...]

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I received this phishing email today.  It probably got through Yahoo’s spam filter because it is image spam.   Clicking on the image in the email, takes you  to some site in Italy. I thought it interesting that it targets customers of the State Department Federal Credit Union.  Perhaps the scammers are targeting this institution because [...]

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I feel like I’m just a few steps away from rubbing two sticks together to make fire – well maybe not that bad. MrFresh captured me a few weeks ago at PodCampDC doing something I did often – reading email, tweets, browsing online, etc. with my Blackberry. The problem is that it wasn’t my Blackberry; [...]

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I’ve been trying to find the facts in the case of Capitol Records, et. al. vs. Jammie Thomas where Thomas was found guilty of distributing copyrighted songs and ordered to pay a fine of $222,000 ($9,250 for each of the 24 songs involved in the case). From what I have gathered, Thomas ripped her own CDs. The [...]

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I just received a poem that according to the email was written my Maya Angelou. I thought the poem was decent enough to consider posting on my site. Before I posted it though, I wanted to verify that it was indeed by Maya Angelou. I searched for a couple of lines along with “Maya Angelou” [...]

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