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• Coastal Stuff, Innovation

  Commuters benefit from sensors

  05.05.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Commuters benefit from sensors

  Ever wondered what those antennae were mounted on freeway signs? Or what the rectangular cuts in the roadway were? Well, they’re probably sensors. Ever wondered how they’re used? Here’s a great example: 511.org and another CalTrans Realtime Traffic Cameras. Here’s a realtime traffic load map from 511.org: You can also meld technology like route planning […]

• Humor, Innovation, Travel

  Stand-up Comedy (Travel Style)

  04.28.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Stand-up Comedy (Travel Style)

  If you read this blog at all, you know one thing I do is travel. I make every attempt to minimize travel as it is very disruptive to my personal life, but sometimes it’s necessary. Earlier this week while driving into the office listening to the radio, I heard a story about “stand-up seating.” You […]

• Innovation

  OnStar update

  04.27.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on OnStar update

  I recently received my OnStar monthly update. A screen shot of the summary is presented below: I really like this summary, it’s clear, concise and actionable. Here’s a close-up of the Maintenance Section of the report: As you can see, everything looks like it’s going well (although, one item that’s not monitored needs some service […]

• Coastal Stuff, Innovation, Technology & Science

  A day without ‘net

  04.24.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on A day without ‘net

  Saturday evening at 8:15pm, my network connection to the world was severed. For many of you this would be no big deal, and indeed, being Saturday, I wasn’t severely tweaked about it. I called my provider and learned of a general outage in my area that they were working to fix. On Sunday morning I […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science, Travel

  Trials of Travel

  04.19.06 | Permalink | Comments Off on Trials of Travel

  So I’m sitting at the San Francisco airport as I write this entry with my plane delayed indefinitely (so the airport info and counter agent say.) Any of you who travel routinely will know this situation all too well. Maintenance issue forcing a switch of equipment. One thing that’s great now is that because I […]

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