Archive for May, 2007

Woo Woo Woes Gone Away!

Apple finally fixed the issue with my Macbook Pro WPA connectivity.

Airport Extreme Update 2007-03 is the answer.

I am glad they fixed it but I was a little disappointed that they took so long.  Didn’t live up to their reputation on this one – and to make matter worse, they kept very quiet about the issue even though their support forums were full of disgruntled mac geeks.

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Comcast, FSC and Premiership Soccer

So for those of you who don’t know – and haven;t determined through the blog title, I am British.  I am also an avid soccer fan.  Ahem, actually lets call that football – it is played with our feet.

So when I moved here i missed the English Premier League – which is generally considered the best league in the world – especially at my house.  This time a couple of years ago my wife upgraded our TV lineup to include the Fox Soccer Channel.  And what a welcome addition this was.  I got to watch some great matches with at least a top 5 team every weekend.

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Digg in a hole with HD-DVD Encryption

Digg have  reinstated all digg.com references to the HD-DVD encryption hack.  They had removed all links that referenced a sixteen digit hex number that unlocked the most currently released HD-DVD titles from the revenue AACS copy protection scheme.

To throw my hat in the ring as well here is the offending random sequence of letters:

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Gone With the Martian Wind

Gone With the Martian Wind:

Mars is a very windy place-so windy, in fact, that bright, oxidized martian soil is being scoured away by martian winds and dust devils to reveal darker, sub-surface soil with the end result of making the whole planet warmer.

In a recent Global Warming debate I had someone politely point out to me that there is Global Warming on Mars which cannot be attributed to human causes…  I think that Global Warming on Mars is probably not caused by us unlucky humans, there are many explanations as to the warming trend on the Red Planet.  🙂

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