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There’s hot, and then there’s damn hot. On Saturday, San Mateo had a high of 109º F, a record high. By way of comparison, Death Valley had a 106º temp.
CalISO Conserv-o-meter:
From BoingBoing:
Heat wave wreaks havoc on California electrical grid
Watch California’s electrical infrastructure melt in realtime on the internet! It’s triple-digitastically hot here in Los Angeles, and has been so without relief for weeks. Jim Graham says,California is facing rolling blackouts today [Ed note: AGAIN] as everyone returns to work from the blistering weekend. The California Independent Service Operator, which manages the state power grid, says people turning on “computers, coffee machines and fax machines” (what, no swamp coolers?) could potentially max out the available supply.
Monitor statewide power usage here. Of course, you’ll need electricity to do that. =)
Finally, someone has worked out how to get an SDIO Wifi card to work with the Treo. Shadowmite at TreoCentral posted this evening that he was successfully connecting to his wireless network from his Treo 650. Not quite ready for corporate use, but now that the driver has gotten to this stage the rest of the work should be relatively easy.
This will be excellent for those of us who use the Treo for email, reading blogs, and streaming audio. We’re still waiting for the Treo 650 to be available from our wireless provider at InfoWorld, but this is yet another reason (along with Bluetooth support) to upgrade from the 600’s.
No word yet as to when this will be working on the 600, but the author posted that he thinks he will be able to do it on that model as well.
More info:
Hmm… I wonder if you could detect this thing in the 12-pack while it’s on the shelf?
Coke has received FCC approval for a GPS-equipped cellphone that fits in a can of soda and which will instantly connect those who discover it to an operator who will tell them that they’ve already won an SUV. The GPS then allows the Coke prize-patrol to home in on them and get a reaction shot.
[via Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing]
La^2 writes “The Austrian research company Salzburg Research did a field trial at the CeBIT 2004 that confirms the seriousness of the recently discovered bluetooth security loophole in the firmware of popular mobile phones. In this trial, 1269 unique bluetooth-enabled devices were discovered, and their vulnerability to the so-called SNARF attack checked…. [Slashdot]
According to BlueStumbler.org, the T610 (and its sister the T616 that I have) are only vulnerable if you have then in Visible mode. Still might not be a bad idea to turn off Bluetooth when not in use though.
Baseball fans bored by the slow pace of a game or wanting more statistics and information will be able to connect computer devices via wireless computer networking, or WiFi, at San Francisco Giants home games this year, the team announced on Tuesday…. [Reuters]
TPS reports from the ball game… Mmyeah, that’d be great.