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unfortunate ironies in monopolistic practices…

By duran | Published: March 30, 2009

When you hear via twitter how workers at an unnamed large corporation in my home town are bitching about their office network being slow…
And you remember how this unnamed large corproate entity was part of the resistance to Philadelphia having their own public wireless network…
To think, if your network went down in your office, you [...]

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“The future is in beta”

By duran | Published: October 2, 2008

I don’t know who said that. Part of me wants to say William Gibson. But I’m not sure.
This evening I’m headed up to NYC to visit my brother for a few days. I decided to take Bolt Bus. They say it has wifi, and the price is very good.
So what the [...]

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iphone firmware 2.0 so far… after the brick.

By duran | Published: July 13, 2008

So, it took me about 3, maybe 4 hours to “unbrick” my iphone.
I’ll get right out of the way that I think that’s utterly, massively, stupidly, unacceptable.
From my personal observation, with out reading any of the documentation, this is what I observed…
Last Thursday at some point I update iTunes to 7.7. Easy as [...]

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