So, today’s Woot Off was the iRobot Roomba 4296 Remote Scheduler Robotic Vacuum. I have been looking into the Roomba/Scooba to make my cleaning chores a bit manageable. I did some quick research on it, and it seems as though it will handle the sweeping chore quite nicely while I am gone during the day.
The [...]
Tagged Consumerism, Geekery, Roomba, WootThe Verizon Actiontec GT704WG Wireless Gateway pictured below is an incredibly engineered piece of FAIL.
If Verizon attempts to send you this for your DSL service, run away from this piece of hardware as fast as you can. There are two major problems I have with this hardware:
it uses Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) for securing the [...]
Tagged DSL, IT, Technical, Verizon, WirelessIn an attempt to make their publication relevant, the Sun has chained some of their reporters to their keyboards and made them enter the brave new world of blogging. I have had a love-hate relationship with many of these blogs, and only a few of them have made my aggregator.
On a lark a few [...]
It never ceases to amaze me to see how my fair city renames various areas and places in the city. The most obvious example is my neighborhood, Pigtown. It is known by the much more friendly moniker of Washington Village in various official documents. Pigtown just sounds so much better. There [...]
Tagged BaltimoreYour New Bicycle.
And that just about sums up my impression of his campaign thus far.
