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Posted by Mike
August 4, 2010

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GPS adventures with a MiFi 2352

So I got a MiFi 2352 from Vodafone, which at 40€/mo unlimited data at up to 7.2Mbps seemed like a good deal, but it actually sucks where I am right now, getting at best, during the night, 300kbps. But I digress. The MiFi is sold by Vodafone factory-unlocked, which is also like a good deal [...]

Posted by Mike
July 21, 2010

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So Dave Winer is tolerant and open-minded…not

[Update] After a tweet from @GadgetDon I thought I’d try to fix things, and thus deleted a couple of tweets that could have been offensive, and removed this post, with the thought of emailing Dave to ask what offended him so much. However, during the few hours since, I have been reading and researching Dave [...]

Posted by Mike
May 31, 2010

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Sobre Nikodemo, capital riesgo, y WebTV

En primer lugar, y dado que sé cómo se siente Albert en éstos momentos, darle tódo mi ánimo en su nuevo proyecto, el WebSeries Festival. Por otro lado, no puedo quedarme al margen de la mucha tinta que se ha versado respecto al modelo de WebTV, el capital riesgo, y los emprendedores, tanto para bién [...]

Posted by Mike
March 19, 2010

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My PCB business card flashes its LEDs!

Finally, I received the new PCBs from the manufacturer, after the first batch were found to be defective on track continuity (possibly due to too aggressive etching). This is a short video showing how the first one I assembled and programmed works:

Posted by Mike
February 5, 2010

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Welcome to my personal blog!

I decided that the firehouse blog was getting too confusing to use as a personal blog, and thus I have decided to leave it for firefighting-related posts, and concentrate on writing a personal blog here. I may on occasions post stuff related to firefighting, but it will be very infrequently. If you need to get [...]