Here's something that doesn't happen every day. Andrew over at Jobacle has a post up all about the benefits of getting to work early. The thing is, I disagree with almost every point. I think that overly stating the case for getting to work early leads to staying late, which leads to being a workaholic and hating your job.
Go check it out, and throw in your two cents. No reason to duplicate the thread over here.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/san-francisco-bus-getting-wifi-deathmatch-to-follow/
Apparently so, at least in San Francisco. I'm all for projects like this. My ride in the morning is somewhere in the 20-30 minute range, and if I've got enough access to send a few emails or download some documentation, why not?
http://lifehacker.com/359471/what-tools-do-you-use-in-your-mobile-office
Good discussion over on Lifehacker about technology for getting the job done when you're travelling. Ranges from what hardware/laptops work best, to what applications you need to be using.
Personally I still need to find the optimal RSS reader that will sync me up when I'm online but let me queue up a bunch of stuff for later reading when I'm not. That would make my day. Never found quite what I need.
http://consumerist.com/355278/americas-10-most-miserable-cities
Nice to see Boston's not on the list, but Providence, Rhode Island is right down the street. They took into consideration commute, taxes, unemployment, crime, weather and a few others.
Most miserable city? Detroit.
No two ways about it, commuting to work means time away from your loved ones. As Valentine's Day draws near, here's a few quick ideas to sneak in a bit of romance:
Who's got any others?
On the one hand this is a great idea. Twitter gives us the chance to say where we are at anytime and anyplace, and share it with an audience. So wouldn't it be great to hear traffic reports from people on the road, 10 minutes ahead of you?
On the other hand, do we really need another excuse for drivers to be paying attention to their devices instead of the road ahead?
I looked up Boston. The only post was somebody at 6:52am saying "Rt 128South slow by Route 3." For those not from Boston, that is the rough equivalent of saying, "Sky is blue." He could have saved himself the SMS fee on that one.
Services like this bring to mind the old days of the CB radio. When stuck in traffic my dad would dial in and simply ask "Anybody know what's the slowdown on 128 south?" and some trucker or somebody would answer back, "Car on fire in the passing lane, only the breakdown lane is getting by." Thank you very much. Sometimes local is the way to go.
http://digg.com/autos/The_unspoken_High_Beam_Flash_rule_could_be_history
I guess I never really thought of it. You pass a speed trap, you flash your headlights at the cars coming the other way to warn them. Apparently it's illegal, depending on your area.
I see so few speed traps that I've never really thought much about it. I tend to flash my lights more at people who are driving around in the dark without their lights on at all.
Interestingly, every single time my wife is in the car with me and somebody flashes their lights, she says "Slow down, speed trap." We could be on a deserted stretch of highway with no place to hide for miles, but she'll still say, "That's what that means, must be a cop somewhere."
http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8559536444.html
Leave it to MIT, with a little help from Linux, to conceive of such a device. The CarTel system would use "opportunistic WiFi" to update it's traffic information. What's that mean? It means that when you're moving you'll periodically drive through a cloud where wireless internet signal is available. So seize that opportunity to get fresh data.
I do that every morning with my email :). As the train stops at each station I know which ones have wireless access points so if I'm fast I can connect and get a peek at email before the train starts moving again :).
