Brian Jepson’s Weblog

As soon as I
was sure I had EDGE speeds in 02881, I snagged a GC82
EDGE card on eBay for around $50. It arrived today, and I’ve told
the story of its setup in
pictures.

I bought a Nokia 6200 a while ago so I could periodically test for EDGE
speeds, and I guess I got lazy… I kept using the phone’s WAP browser to
test with DSL Reports’ mobile
speed test, and kept getting GPRS speeds. So I decided to tether and
test today, and I got great speeds from my home. All tests were with
compressed binary data, all speeds in kilobytes/second as reported by
wget:

Boing
Boing: “According the Independent Catholic News, the book, published
by the Catholic Truth Society, raises such questions as:
…

• Is Jesus Christ’s redemption valid for intelligent
  beings throughout the universe?
• or would other worlds have their own version of
  Jesus?…”

Philip K. Dick had a little bit of twisted fun with those two questions in
Rautavaara’s
Case.

Chris just called a bubbler a “water fountain”.

We had an observing session in the Great Swamp area tonight. Here’s what I
managed to bag:

• M31
• M32
• M33
• M27
• M57
• M39
• IC
  4665
• The Double
  Cluster