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Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Bay Area to Install EV Charging Stations

    The Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board recently approved $5 million for the installation of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and home chargers. According to the press release, the money will fund the installation of: 3,000 home chargers 2,000 public chargers 50 fast chargers (off of freeways) They say that transportation is responsible for…

  • Google Dumps Wave

    So maybe I am a late breaking blog?  How funny.  On that note:  Did anyone see the effects of the solar storm?  I did not. Anyway….I was reading ComputerWorld online today and saw that Google has dropped WAVE. No surprise there. AltamontCowork member, Phil, and I played with it last year (when we finally got…

  • Solar Storm Tonight

    Breaking News: I’m NOT a breaking news kind of blogger, but, I was reading National Geographic (see this link) just now and there is a solar storm that will hit the earth late tonight (August 3, 2010). Here is a video of the sun burp that will cause the storm…..VERY COOL http://www.youtube.com/v/VyaqxKkSCpU&hl=en_US&fs=1 Gee…is my new…

  • What is Coworking?

    What is Coworking?

    UPDATE August 25, 2022: The new Google search algorithm is uncovering old articles I had forgotten about. I stopped AltamontCowork on Dec 31, 2014 after a nice run of almost 6 years with only one commuter using the place in that 6 years. All the rest were start-ups. Go here for my lessons learned! Enjoy…

  • iPhone Videoconferencing for Business?

    Many of you are involved in the corporate world of videoconferencing.  I was just wondering if you would consider using the iPhone for business related videoconferencing calls? Your comments or suggestions are welcome in the “other” section. 🙂 Would you use iPhone videoconferencing for business?Market Research

  • CNET Tests the iPhone Antenna Issue

    This is cool….wish I had the $ to buy an iPhone (and a spectrum analyzer) to do some real cool testing….oh well…gotta love CNET: http://www.cnet.com/av/video/embed/player.swf

  • Broadband Expansion

    CNN reports today that President Obama announced the support for the expansion of broadband into areas that are lacking this connectivity now. Here is the CNN video: http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=tech/2010/07/02/obama.broadband.comment.cnn Awesome!  Let there be high speed access….everywhere.  Then maybe telecommuting will flourish (oh, maybe not…the OFB’s have to retire first…arrgghhh)…. 🙂

  • Virus Hunter, Part 2

    A long time ago, when I was YeOldeTechy (I am no longer old, so I dropped that silly name) I had a few gigs cleaning up trojans, viruses, and other nasties.  I actually was getting pretty good at it…. The past few weeks, I have had a string of computers that were either: A:  Slower…

  • Cisco Cius

    UPDATE August 17, 2023: Consider this a HISTORY lesson in videoconferencing / Personal Telepresence (which is the term and concept I developed way back in the dark ages). A friend works at WebEx (now Cisco) and put a link for this video up on Facebook today. Now that videoconferencing is real (thanks Steve Jobs) does…

  • Barnes & Noble Nook for Fathers Day

    If you have been reading this blog for awhile, you know that my stand on e-book readers has softened from “firmly…staunchly…against”, to “I understand that the stories (and authors) are not going away”, to…. Well gee…..I now have the Nook !! Was I enthusiastically looking forward to firing it up and using it (like a…