Alex Barnett blog

Talking of wifi on the move, I decided to replace my aging Negear WGR614 with something providing more range and reliability (it really had neither). (mine wasn't so big - what is this picture???)I tried out the WNR834 ('Rangemax' N thing). And took it straight back. You see, I expect things to work when I pay money for ...

I was gutted when I heard the news that Beoing were pulling out of the in-flight wireless game...but...it looks like Panasonic might pick up where Connexion left off."Panasonic wants commitments within 60 days from airlines for 500 planes to be equipped; they say they have 150 committed now. Lufthansa has over 60 planes with ...

I made an observation the other day, that then led me to another and then another. Perhaps these are entirely obvious to you but I hadn't previously made the connection between the tags I use, their frequency in my tagcloud and Chris Anderson's 'the Long Tail' theory. Doing a quick search on the web, I haven't ...

I want one of these:

Great comments keep rolling in on the series of posts I've been doing on reinventing the Internet...

Nathan - would love to but no time...heading back Tuesday. Why not come to the VSLive!, meet for coffee there? mail me... Alfred - thanks, will look out for it.

My first time walking around downtown Brooklyn today (here for VSLive!). Actually, it's not as bad I imagined...

Waxy.org has posted some recordings of the in-game Developer Commentary available in Half Life 2: Episode One. What a cool idea.  I wonder what other uses there could be of this concept? Maybe source code comments with dynamically updated links to relevant blog posts, forum posts and screencasts as additional annotation...a ...

It's a Life hack Jim, but not as we know it

Jason - me too! ;-) Alex - I've been follwing your blog for a while (your ADO.NET vNext and Data 2.0 posts got on my radar). Good stuff...