Archive for October, 2005

Kicking up my T-Mobile EDGE

Friday, October 21st, 2005

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
.

Cool… T-Mobile Turned on EDGE in South County

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005

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:

Size Test 1 Test 2 Test 3
64k 9.56 8.19 7.66
256k 6.87 8.81 5.87
512k 7.54 13.13 12.36

Vatican Astronomer on Extra Terrestrials

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

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
.

Family Guy Lets Me Down

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

Chris just called a bubbler a “water fountain”.

Tonight’s Catch

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

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