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[Ian Rambles:] DSL Service Providers Killed By RBOCs

Through their own ineptitude (poor provisioning methods, not enough line crews and installers, poor network maintenance) RBOCs have killed the DSL industry. All of the major DSL Service Providers are now toast. >From now on, DSL will be a product sold exclusively by...

Wow. I Made A Web Page!

I re-did the ianbell.com web site last night. It looks like I actually know what I’m doing, no? The downside is it no longer formats identically on WAP as it does on the WWW…. but then, we all know how I feel about WAP. Enjoy. -Ian.

Suck sez WAP Sucks

Yet another publication chimes in with a strong Anti-WAP message: WAP sucks. Of course, the fact that WAP sucks is old news on FOIB, but this article is really funny. At the root of the problem are the Wireless Service Providers, now shifting like sand dunes to avoid...

WAPathy…

WAPathy. [see below] I wish I’d thought of this term. Bryan Robertson calls WAP the “Internet in My Pants”. I wish I’d thought of that, too. Those few of you bored enough to read this list know how I feel about WAP. It’s not so much that...

Handheld PDAs

Okay, so I’m what you’d call “unique”. I am a very mobile user and also very disorganized, so I need tools to prop me up. But, over the years, the hard lessons of early-adopter victimization have saltied me to the gimmickry of high-tech,...