Archive: January, 2009

Posted by Mike
January 27, 2009

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Deutsche Bank, possibly the worst online banking system ever

Today, after almost a month waiting, I picked up the access details for our company account at Deutsche Bank, which would enable me to manage it through DB’s online banking. After one day of using this thing, I can conclude it’s the biggest [expletive deleted] -ever- in the history of online banking. One would be [...]

Posted by Mike
January 8, 2009

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Boingo abandons own WiFi maps, uses JiWire

It seems that Boingo didn’t want to carry on improvements to their own hotspot finder service, which I wrote about a few months ago, and have chosen JiWire’s white-label service, found at http://boingo.jiwire.com. The maps look very nice, and are much more usable than the previous hotspot finder – kudos Boingo!

Posted by Mike


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Skype implements WISPr for WiFi access

The cat is out of the bag, so I guess I can now disclose that we had a few talks with Skype regarding integration of the Whisher client with the Skype client through an API, which would allow Skype to get its users online at over 150.000 hotspots through payment of a per-minute fee deducted [...]

Posted by Mike
January 2, 2009

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A few days in power hell

For some reason, the power utility and my DSL provider decided to take a dump during the last week, both at the same time. It all started with a day without power, which was blamed on maintenance work. Until today, I ran an APC BackUPS 350 to filter out any power problems that could affect [...]