New tech toy arrival this week: a pocket-sized WiFi sniffer, to locate active wireless networks and measure signal strength. It also detects Bluetooth networks, and has a little yellow-LED flashlight on the end for good measure. Noted in the instructions: "Frequent activation or lengthy use of the flashlight will decrease battery life." Call me optimistic, but if you're tech-savvy enough to want a WiFi sniffer, you're probably savvy enough to know that using a battery-operated device is a drain on the battery.
Timing Is Everything, Blogger Edition
As of late, if you stumbled on this site at the right time, you might see multiples of the same post. Blogger has been hiccuping a lot lately, giving me time-out and failure messages, even when posts were actually published. At least I know I'm not alone in these issues. Blogger's response (other than working behind the scenes to fix things) is to promote the recover post feature — apparently it stores your post occasionally as you write, in a local-computer "cookie."
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I'm probably going to be the millionth blogger to mention this, but: Sesame Street is trying to make Cookie Monster more health-conscious. (Heck, even the article on CNN.com reads more like a blog entry than an Associated Press article.) I wouldn't go so far as to call it sacrilege, but I guess it is reasonable that you can't underestimate the effect TV has on kids. Still, couldn't they just make a Muppet friend for Cookie Monster that loves fruits and veggies to balance him out?
I'm sorry, "Carrot Monster" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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