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| I'm Back From Italy |
| 09.11.03 (12:15 pm) [edit] |
I arrived back home from my trip in Italy with Globus Tours. Whew, back one day before the US travellers warning was issued! :shock:
Here is a slideshow of Italy:
[url=http://harrisinternet.dnsalia...:10/Italy%202003%20galler y.php]Italy 2003[/url]
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| 60 Tbucks! |
| 09.02.03 (11:32 am) [edit] |
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I have 60 tbucks now!!!! :D how many do YOU have? :shock: :?
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| Italy! Here I come!!! |
| 09.01.03 (8:36 pm) [edit] |
Italy awaits me tomorrow!
I will be in Italy for about 9 days and I will see Rome, Venice, and Florence! Maybe I'll see the statue of David? Stay tune as I will bring back lots of pctures for you to enjoy!
Bye!
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| I got my driver's license!!! |
| 08.22.03 (1:58 pm) [edit] |
HOORAHH! I passed my DMV test with a 100% today!!!!!
Now I can drive wherever :shock: .... shocking, LOL :D
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| Awesome webcam |
| 08.17.03 (6:18 am) [edit] |
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Hey this Intel webcam is very cool, you can use it in your IMs or you can hookup thing slike your VCR, DVD player, and a TV! [url=]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayIS...[/url]
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| Getting back from AWANA Camp |
| 07.12.03 (7:23 pm) [edit] |
Here are pictures and videos from AWANA Scholarship Camp 2003
=http://12.250.153.83:10/cam/AWANA%20Scholarsh ip%20Camp%202003/ target=_blankLink
And if you want to look at the gallery format:
=http://12.250.153.83:10/gallery.php target=_blankHere is the Link
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| PHP |
| 05.31.03 (9:35 am) [edit] |
Programming is fun!
It's like building things, you get that satisfaction that you have built something of use.
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| Youth Group |
| 05.29.03 (8:34 am) [edit] |
Got back from my church youth group last night.
Talked about loyalty to friends and to parents. The answer: Obey your parents and listen to your friends IN THE LORD!
So if it matches up with the Bible, it's fine to proceed.
Here is a =http://12.250.153.83:10/pictures/samuel/Fancy %20Night%20Out%20-%20WSCC %20SR,%20High/few pictures of my youth group at "Fancy Night Out".
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| First Post |
| 05.27.03 (3:33 pm) [edit] |
Well, here is my personal blog on Tblog.com!
I'll go ahead and post an article that I like....[LINE]
'WiFi' Networks Are Expanding Internet's Reach, Profit Opportunities
By Yuki Noguchi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 20, 2003; Page H01
It's Saturday afternoon, and Art Slater sits at his perch in the bay window of the Cyberstop Cafe.
The thin card he slides into the side of his laptop detects a wireless signal, an icon pops up on the bottom of the screen, and Slater clicks on it to connect to the signal coming from the Dupont Circle cafe's back offices 20 feet away.
With that, he's on the Internet, with a connection faster than anything at home.
Outside on the patio, Matt O'Neill is transmitting files of art over the same airwaves as Slater.
Across town near Eastern Market, Nicholas Cho just installed a similar wireless connection in his own cafe, Murky Coffee. A for-fee version of the same technology is available in 145 Starbucks coffee bars around the area.
And in a Leesburg subdivision 40 miles from downtown, Laurie and Rich Dunham are making a tiny profit selling a wireless Internet service broadcast from their rooftop to their neighbors' homes.
The WiFi networking all these people are using could not have been purchased for any price 10 years ago. Five years ago it was just arriving in the market, advertised solely as a cheap way to network computers in individual homes and classrooms.
But WiFi (short for "wireless fidelity," and sometimes referred to by the technical description "802.11b") is going lots of other places. It began life as an alternative to wired Ethernet networks, but it has grown into a tool to expand the boundaries of the Internet. WiFi has allowed an invisible web of wireless networks to creep across the Washington area, offering Internet access to anyone with the right hardware.
The number of locations with WiFi service -- or "hot spots" -- quadrupled last year, to just under 4,000 nationwide, according to the research firm Instat/MDR.
At home, a WiFi setup can be quite simple. A typical rig consists of a $100-or-less access point, plus under-$50 receivers in each computer. The access point takes a broadband or dial-up Internet connection and shares it with any authorized computer within range.
To take WiFi out of the home and provide Internet access to strangers involves a few changes. Sometimes, the WiFi antenna has to be moved to rooftops to allow the signal to go farther, with other antennas on nearby buildings to relay it.
Companies that charge for service, and therefore don't want freeloaders riding their airwaves, also have to deploy software to control access by subscribers. For-pay WiFi services may also provide extra security with "virtual private network" software that encrypts network traffic.
Many companies think they can make a profit from this -- even while some of them have already gone bust in the attempt. The best-known WiFi businesses consist of networks in cafes, hotels and airports that are marketed to business travelers and Internet addicts who might subscribe to a second Internet access service to get that connectivity away from home. Some are start-ups (Boingo Wireless, Cometa Networks, Wayport and Wise Technologies, to name a few), while others, such the wireless-phone firm T-Mobile USA, market WiFi as an adjunct to existing services.
Wayport has installed WiFi in 30 Washington area hotels and saw traffic double in Washington and around the country last year, said Daniel Lowden, vice president of marketing for the Austin-based company. An average of 9.8 percent of people staying in those hotels use their wireless service -- lower than the 25 percent usage rate in the San Francisco area but above the national average of 6 percent, he said.
Wayport now has 170,000 daily or monthly subscribers, up from 50,000 a year ago, Lowden said, and will generate enough cash to cover operating expenses within a few months. Prices range from $6.95 for one-time usage within an airport, to $49.95 monthly unlimited service at any Wayport access point.
Wise Technologies is making its own attempt to blanket the Washington area with WiFi; so far it has 50 hot spots deployed in places from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to the Zanzibar nightclub in Southwest, said Gary S. Murray II, president of the privately held Landover firm. Wise was founded in 2001; it has more than 2,200 users and is growing by 10 percent a month, he said.
For the moment, Wise isn't interested in expanding beyond Washington -- its target is to double its number of hot spots by the end of the year, Murray said.
A separate set of firms, mostly smaller local companies, are using WiFi to transmit high-speed Internet connections to areas that lack alternatives to slow, dial-up modem access.
Laurie Dunham founded East Statford Wireless Internet Service LLC out of her Leesburg home last July, when neither cable-modem nor digital-subscriber-line service was available in her subdivision.
"Let's take the bull by the horns," she said. After sending leaflets to neighbors, she and her engineer husband, Rich, discovered they had enough nearby interest to set up their own Internet service. They set up specialized antennas on rooftops and now provide access at $45 a month to 30 neighbors who live within a one-mile radius of their home.
Oneder LLC is also selling WiFi in areas that don't get much high-speed access. The Baltimore firm uses high-powered antennas to broadcast wireless Internet connections throughout residential buildings, retirement homes and, more recently, in the Baltimore City Fire Department.
"We're teetering on the edge of profitability," said the company's president, Keith Walter. Breaking even would be a milestone for the year-old firm.
Several other firms never made it that far. Wireless communications -- not just WiFi, but in general -- has turned out to be a tar pit for many start-ups.
"Companies like MobileStar and Metricom went out of business for a reason -- because the market was not large enough for those networks to be profitable," said Jane Zweig, chief executive of the Shosteck Group, a Wheaton-based market-research firm. "Those reasons still exist."
It's unclear how many laptop users want to use the service and would be willing to pay for it, Zweig said. "The question is not: Will people use it? It is: Is that market large enough to make business sense?"
In February, New York-based Joltage Networks shut its doors because it didn't attract enough users. Earlier this month, T-Mobile, the company responsible for installing wireless service in Starbucks stores, slashed its prices from 25 cents to 10 cents per minute, an indication that usage hasn't taken off as quickly as anticipated.
One reason might be the many locations that, like Starbucks competitors Cyberstop and Murky Coffee, offer WiFi free.
Cho, the owner of Murky Coffee, said he never considered charging for WiFi. He said he recoups the $70-a-month cost through coffee and sandwich sales.
"What this has been able to do is bring in people in the evening, and they buy a cup of coffee," Cho said. "I figure, if you're savvy enough to use it, then you're probably savvy enough to . . . find a different connection for free."
Also, he added, "it helps the image of our shop as a forward-thinking business."
Some WiFi access comes from simple idealism. A few blocks in downtown Bethesda have free WiFi courtesy of Tangerine Unwired, a Bethesda consulting business. Co-founder Philip Leif Bjerknes, an 18-year-old student at the University of Maryland, said there ought to be more free community WiFi services like his in the area."I was on Market Street in downtown San Francisco and there were seven different networks open," he said. "In D.C., I have yet to stumble across any public access networks."
Slater, a database administrator who likes to use the free Internet connection at Cyberstop Cafe, offered his own insight into the for-pay wireless business: "I think there are so many other monthly costs you pay for, I feel like it should be free. That's part of the Internet culture: We're accustomed to wanting things for free."
TechNews.com
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