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Community Wireless Summit 2006 – Soundbites

By Ken | Published: April 1, 2006
So I have heard some funny and interesting sound bites in various prensentations and Q and A, I will try and keep updating this over the weekend. “Infinite Scalability, Totally Secure” - Jeffery King, Northrup Grumman IT, in reference to the Tropos based municipal wireless network being built out in Corpus Christi “Infinite Scalability, Total [...]
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St. Louis, MO – Day 1

By Ken | Published: March 31, 2006
After numerous airline complications, decending through a massive thunder and lightning storm, and a cabin full of applause for the pilots upon landing, I am finally in St. Louis for the National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. Matt and I spent the last couple of hours at the Waffle House drinking coffee and musing over [...]
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I didn’t take any pictures while in San Francisco

By Ken | Published: February 20, 2006
Even though I bought a new camera last month, I managed to space it in my mad rush to get to the airport. Of course other people at codecon took pictures: ioerror’s codecon flickr stream H1kari’s codecon flickr stream
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Codecon SF Day 1

By | Published: February 11, 2006
Wow, long time with no posts. I arrived in San Francisco last night around 8pm. After getting picked up the airport, I headed straight over to the Fillmore to eat dinner and see The Stars. I had never listened to The Stars before and was pleasantly surprised. They hail from Montreal and have a unique [...]
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Ray’s revisted

By | Published: January 7, 2006
Andrew J. Lederer commented today on my Ray’s pizza post and has a Ray’s related post of his own. The reason I mention it is because I find it fascinating that the food related posts tend to attract the most comments from random people. Last night while playing poker with some ex-coworkers one the product [...]
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Ray’s Famous, Original…

By | Published: October 26, 2005
KRAMER: I miss home, and I don’t even know how to get there. JERRY: What’s around you? KRAMER: I’m lookin’ at Ray’s Pizza. You know where that is? JERRY: Is it Famous Ray’s? KRAMER: No. It’s Original Ray’s. JERRY: Famous Original Ray’s? KRAMER: It’s just Original, Jerry! Ray’s Pizza, Ray’s Famous Pizza, Ray’s Original Famous [...]
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McSorley’s

By | Published: October 26, 2005
“i was sitting in mcsorley’s. outside it was New York and beautifully snowing.” E. E. Cummings started a poem with this line in 1925. McSorley’s opened at East 7th st. in the East Village in 1854. If it was not for modern day clothing of the patrons, I could have easily forgotten what year it [...]
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Toorcon 7 San Diego

By | Published: September 25, 2005
This past weekend I flew down to San Diego for Toorcon 7. Toorcon is part of a breed of smaller hacker cons that are becoming more and more popular. Defcon is insanely huge now, and for most people (including myself) its just a yearly party in Vegas where you catch up with old friends, not [...]
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Chez Ken, Gastronomique @ Burning Man

By | Published: August 24, 2005
So here is my tentative menu for our week out in the playa. Figuring out what to eat for a week without a fridge or freezer, and limited cooking surface is a lot harder than I thought. If you have ever seen me suffer through my “not enough food” paranoia when preparing food for a [...]
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Heading to the Playa

By | Published: August 23, 2005
This Saturday I leave for Burning Man for the first time. I am pretty damn excited and rushing around to tie up all the last minutes loose ends. I am camping with one other person, although we will probably camp on in a spot with some of his friends. But we will be self sufficent [...]
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