November 2010 Blog Posts (3)

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is on Charlie Rose tonight at 2300 EST!

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is on Charlie Rose tonight at 2300 EST! (Photo from Wikipedia)



I did a Swampcast interview with Wikipedia CTO Brion Vibber that was fantastically interesting. You can listen to it at…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 17, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Time Machine and AirPort Updates



I recently found an Airport Extreme A1034 on craigslist and bought it. It was in Portland, OR and the kind gentleman who advertised it found it at a garage sale. He said he "wanted to see it go to a good home." He sold it to me for $10! I called Apple and registered it in my name. Apple told me it was purchased in Chile! It works fantastically well. The speed and range are above average.



I just noticed an option to use Airport Extreme as… Continue

Added by Michael Levin on November 17, 2010 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Woz at Univ of Florida Monday 11/8



Attention! Steve Wozniak will speak at UF 11/8 from 20:00-22:00 Details here:

http://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent

Time: 8:00 pm



to 10:00…

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Added by Michael Levin on November 4, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

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