Thursday, August 8, 2002

Wireless Mojo? Source: 80211b News; 8/8/02; 1:15:05 PM. An empty box containing only snake oil: "In talking with colleagues in the last few weeks, we all agreed that there's a rise in the potential-snake-oil segment of the wireless industry. The story cited above was reported back in May 2002, and it's a good one to recollect: a cleverly handled demo fooled technical people who weren't able to touch the hardware. .... Show me the hardware (and the FCC license)! Or better yet, show it to an independent testing lab. 6:19:27 PM    The Soapbox

Monitoring Radio Comments via Phil's Python Community Server: Monitor Radio blog comments with ease. "If, like me, you have trouble keeping track of when people add comments to your Radio blog, you need to check this out: Radio Comment Monitor It's a PHP script I hacked up to generate summary pages from the JavaScript that Radio weblogs use to determine the comment counts.  You get a list of comment counts in reverse time order, and the URL includes the number of comments so the links will go blue when a new comment gets posted (as long as everything is still in your browser cache. Examples: this blog; my Salon blog. It works with pycs.net as well as radio.weblogs.com and blogs.salon.com.  If anyone knows of any other comment servers they'd like to include, drop me a line and I'll have a go at them. Note: It doesn't appear to work in Mozilla or Opera yet - are there any JS hackers out there who could tell me why?" I have to second Phil's request; Can someone help out with the Mozilla connection? 7:12:24 AM    The Soapbox