Christine and her family left Houston earlier today. As of her last photo camera post on flickr, they've travelled six hours in 35 minutes. Yow!

Christine and her family left Houston earlier today. As of her last photo camera post on flickr, they've travelled six hours in 35 minutes. Yow!

Here's a screenshot (click the image for a larger image in a popup) for Steve Garfield who was curious about how to send email from his Mac's mail.app program when he's away from his home or work network. It came up when we were talking at the Museum of Science earlier today after the Boston Wi-Fi Summit. This may not work with all email hosting providers or networks. I've got DreamHost for my web and email hosting.

Speaking of the Museum of Science, they opened up their internal Wi-Fi network for the summit today. Wouldn't it be great if it was always open or at least in the lobby and outside?

They've sent out an open invitation to anyone interested in this discussion to RSVP and come to the Summit, which is next Thursday at 8:45AM at the Museum of Science. It's open to the public and you do not have to be a Boston resident to attend. There is no fee.

More information and RSVP here:

http://www.bostonwag.org/summit.html

(BostonWAG is an organization for Wireless Advocacy in Boston that I've co-founded.)

The story: I received several telemarketing calls from a phone company that wanted me to switch to them. That's not weird. What is? The reason to switch. They are the only phone company that doesn't support gay marriage, along with various other things. These are real, for those wondering.

I've been having an oddly fun time seeing Rosie O'Donnell's camera phone photos appear on my flickr contacts page. It's an interesting glimpse into a famous person's world. For example, this is a photo she took of photographers taking photos of her. Rosie (are we on a first name basis yet?) also has photos of her kids, wife, day-to-day life, events, etc. Are there any other famous people using flickr?

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Boston singer-songwriter Rose Polenzani has a new tune available for (free) MP3 download. Grab it now in Rose's music shoppe. It will be replaced with another tune sooner or later. It's called "I Have Seen a Light." Rose describes it best:

It's a really simple song, kind of repetitive. It just gets bigger and bigger. That's my thing. Anyway, the 'light' isn't the one you might be thinking of, it's something kind of hard and real like a medicine ball.

So.Very.Good. Grab your headphones and turn up the volume. If you like that song, buy her album October that came out last Fall.

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