finally, a wireless standard that i can fall in love with : 802.11r

802.11r is a wireless standard that takes max 50ms to switch connections. What that means basically is when you're in a car (or in a train like me :)) and you switch towers your phone lag time in dropping the internet connection and picking up a new one will likely be < 50ms! That's insane, and amazing for wireless internet in transportation. I can't wait!

http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/377814608/

oh and seriously...sarah palin? somebody's desperate, and better get ready to be beat on every front now. i thought the gops' main weapon was the inexperience? be ready to be beaten with the fact that she's a heartbeat away from the presidency(especially after mcsame just had his 72nd birthday!).

wtf is ECMAScript? it's javascript's real name of course!

ajaxian posted a great link to an article by alex russel of dojo about what exactly all those crazy names for javascript and similar languages mean. check it out, i learned a bit:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/369006595/ecma-what-harmony-who-tc39-tamarin-javascript

getting better at phone tethering

for about a month now i've been tethering my phone to my macbook for on-the-train development/basic web browsing. so-far i'd give it a 6/10. there's 2 major downfalls: speed & consistent connection.

for me it's still worth it if i can get an extra hour of development in during the day, but if i ever stop taking the train i'm going to get rid of it. it's about as fast as dial-up, and you are always losing and regaining the connection. if i'm in a coffee shop and turn off images in the browser it can be decently fast and reliable, but on the train it takes some getting used too.

for using aim on the train it's perfect. i almost never get messed up communication. for ssh access it's iffy. you can really tell when the connection is solid or not, but the communication is normally < 50k when saving files so it's fast when the connection is solid at least.

i really would not suggest this for non-geeks. for basic web browsing it's not worth the extra $30 it cost. but for someone wasting ~2 hours a day sitting on a train, it might be worth it to try for a month and see what you think.