At a recent conference [at Dartmouth], Larry Levine, the head of computing services, challenged attendees to find a single spot on campus and surrounding areas that did not have 802.11 coverage. Even the boathouse, adjacent sections of the Connecticut river, the ski lodge, and sections of the ski slope are covered!

And one reason to work for Microsoft:

Microsoft operates one of the densest 802.11 networks in the world, with 4,223 access points accessed by 70,000 users. By positioning APs every 20 meters.

11:16:34 PM   []

NY Times: At N.Y.U., Not All Want to Talk About Deaths, but Reminders Are Never Far Away

But despite more spending for mental health services at colleges in the last decade, suicide remains a leading cause of death among adolescents and young adults.

"The rate of suicide roughly tripled from 1952 to 1996 among young adults, ages 15 to 19," said Dr. Victor Schwartz, a psychiatrist who is co-director of N.Y.U.'s counseling service, citing figures in a report from the surgeon general.

* I do not believe that Waterloo news sources should necessarily publish details of individual incidents but I do believe that Waterloo should publish statistics.
10:52:14 PM   []

BB reports that Wired Magazine had exclusive rights to the story and had to run the story online before the magazine hit newstands.

Anyhow, this is cool. They're challenging Google (though they do have many other outstanding search issues).

Though what I think would be *very useful* is a way to maintain a 'library' of all the books you have read and then to be able to full text search it. I'm sure once they open up an API for this feature you will be able to do something like this.

Why do I think this would be *very useful*? Because so often I know I have read something but just can't put my finger on where. It would be even better if I could maintain a virtual library of all the books, magazines, newspapers and websites I've read and be able to full text search it. This is something I would pay for.

As for Ming's 'Search Inside the Lyric'. Maybe when Amazon gets into the digital music space they will have such a feature. Though I don't know how easy it will be for them to clear the lyrics (Darryl?). I know I'd like to have lyrics scrolling across my iTunes/iPod when I am playing a song. I might even pay more per track for that happen. Then of course once you have full text lyrics then you could search your library of music in a full text manner..

Update: Interesting links elsewhere:

• Unfair Use? Amazon's Free Book Giveaway

10:35:34 PM   []

Me: I'm digging the music.
Redman: It's from Ragde.

10:11:40 PM   []

The worst aspect of the present situation is the shaking down of unwary Cuba travelers by a government which knows that if a fine is contested there will be no prosecution. The theoretical fine for unlicensed spending is $250,000, the fine on paper but not practice is $55,000, the typical fine is $7,500, however Treasury accepts down to $700 in "voluntary settlement." Treasury has been refusing to make public its records but a 2001 NY Transfer report by Jon Hillson indicates that Treasury told him that while they had then taken in almost $2,000,000 in settlements from the 379 Cuba travelers who were frightened enough to pay voluntarily, it had never taken anyone to court.

And just today Senate moves to end ban on travel to Cuba.
10:10:26 PM   []

Some girl Redman was trying to pick up compared the low attendance at Bomber to the baseball strike. After the strike (or in our case the shutdown) people were just anti-baseball (or Bomber).

Regardless, Saturday is the new Wednesday. But that doesn't mean you should blow off Wednesdays.
2:03:35 AM   []