The new features in Blogger look nice, although not mind-bogglingly so.
One thing I miss (or maybe I just missed it) is the possibility to publish Blogs under an arbitrary domain name, i.e. http://blog.leinen.ch/. This could be easily achieved by integrating Blogger into Google Apps for Your Domain, which can already host Web pages, GMail accounts, and personalized "intranet" sites under arbitrary domain names.
UPDATE: Hey, Google is reading my blog! It only took'em until January 5 to announce "Blogger Custom Domains". So as of today, this blog is available under my own domain, blog.simon.leinen.ch.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
WLAN attenuation (in hotel rooms)
I stumbled across an article "Redecorating Your Guestrooms May Spell Disaster for Wireless Signals"
by Bill Halpin, on the site of Core Communications, a company that builds WLANs for hotels and conventions. It includes a nice table of various kinds of stuff that is used for hotel rooms, along with their respective expected attenuation factors (in %) for WLAN signals. Silvered mirrors and other chrome or metal objects are worst. Some of this information might be useful for people other than hotel managers.
UPDATE: Core Communications was acquired and has become Swisscom Hospitality Services. To match the Swisscom look & feel, useful information such as the above article probably had to be removed.
by Bill Halpin, on the site of Core Communications, a company that builds WLANs for hotels and conventions. It includes a nice table of various kinds of stuff that is used for hotel rooms, along with their respective expected attenuation factors (in %) for WLAN signals. Silvered mirrors and other chrome or metal objects are worst. Some of this information might be useful for people other than hotel managers.
UPDATE: Core Communications was acquired and has become Swisscom Hospitality Services. To match the Swisscom look & feel, useful information such as the above article probably had to be removed.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
The Korean Mini-Hompy
Everybody is blogging, so I finally decided to start a public weblog of my own when I stumbled over the Blogger icon on Google. Maybe I'll move this to another server soon, possibly my own.
A news item that fascinated me last week was this:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/exclusive/200411/kt2004112518452663570.htm
In Korea, eleven million people (as of November 2004) subscribe to a service called "Cyworld", which allows them to post personal "Mini Hompys", or mini-homepages. It seems to be a convincing combination of a homepage/blog hosting service, social software (personal homepages can somehow be interlinked), with the possibility of uploading images from camera phones.
But the fact that 11 million South Koreans use this service is absolutely stunning to me - this is more than a quarter of the country's total population, and I assume that in many subclasses of the population (age and/or social groups), penetration must be so close to 100% that it will be considered weird if you're not a subscriber.
A news item that fascinated me last week was this:
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/exclusive/200411/kt2004112518452663570.htm
In Korea, eleven million people (as of November 2004) subscribe to a service called "Cyworld", which allows them to post personal "Mini Hompys", or mini-homepages. It seems to be a convincing combination of a homepage/blog hosting service, social software (personal homepages can somehow be interlinked), with the possibility of uploading images from camera phones.
But the fact that 11 million South Koreans use this service is absolutely stunning to me - this is more than a quarter of the country's total population, and I assume that in many subclasses of the population (age and/or social groups), penetration must be so close to 100% that it will be considered weird if you're not a subscriber.
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