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Speeding on the Subway
At the uptown end of the 59th Street/Columbus Circle subway platform there hangs from the ceiling a box with three disks on fat stalks, connected by thick black cables that run to something unseen in the downtown direction. Knowing a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Geography, infrastructure, Internet, Personal, Photography, Places, Technology, Travel, VRM
Tagged @Ookla, @TMobile, infrastructure, internet, mobile, new york, research, RF, speedtest, subway, telephony
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Dear Magazines: please quit screwing loyal subscribers
When my main credit card got yanked for some kind of fraud activity earlier this month (as it seems all of them do, sooner or later) I had the unpleasant task of going back over my bills to see what … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Journalism, marketing, Personal, problems, Technology
Tagged Consumer Reports, new york, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired
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Weather vs. Flying
Here in the temperate zones, summer is beaches and picnics and biking and dinner on the deck outside. It is also thunderstorms and airport delays. Right now a line of thunderheads is sliding northeastward across New Jersey. Here is how … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, Geography, infrastructure, Research, Science, Technology, Travel, weather
Tagged new york
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FiOS is in my street. Can I have some?
[4 December: I got a call from Verizon and an answer. For that, skip down to *here.] We have a new apartment in Manhattan. Washington Heights. Verizon FiOS is here. FiOS trucks roam the streets. They set up little tables … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Call center hell, Personal, Places, problems, Technology, VRM
Tagged fios, internet, Manhattan, new york, verizon, Washington Heights
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Thinking outside the Internet box
A couple days ago I responded to a posting on an email list. What I wrote struck a few chords, so I thought I’d repeat it here, with just a few edits, and then add a few additional thoughts as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Future, Gear, Ideas, infrastructure, Past, Politics, problems, Technology
Tagged ABC, AM, Brett Glass, Broadband Politics, CBS, cloud, Erik Cecil, FM, fox, Hammarlund, Hammarlund HQ-129x, information service, internet, NBC, New Jersey, new york, Nicholas Carr, ota, PBS, projectvrm, regulatory capture, Richard Bennett, Sporadic E, telecommunication service, television, towers, uhf, utility, vhf, VRM, Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler
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Let it Snow
We were flying along in the bus when wham: it started snowing. Heavily. Now we’re creeping along through Westchester, and the road is clearly getting a little dangerous. There’s an inch or so on the ground now, and it’ll probably … Continue reading
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Tagged bolt bus, bus, new york, snow, snowing, Travel, wintry mix
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