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Making a Linksys WRT55AG wireless router work with Verizon DSL

August 5th, 2009 No comments

At home I have a Verizon DLS service, using a Westel DLS modem. At work once had Internet service from Comcast, and a Linksys WRT55AG wireless router. After we switched to Verizon, the Linksys WRT55AG router stopped working. I tried reseting the WRT55AG to the default setting and upgrading the firmware, but that did not help. What did fix the problem was to go into the router setup (going to 192.168.1.1), and from Setup/Basic Setup/Network Setup, change the Router IP to 192.168.2.1.

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The April 7, 2009 Authors Guild demonstration over Kindle text to speech

April 12th, 2009 No comments

These are two pictures from the April 7, 2009 demonstration in front of the Authors Guild over text to speech in Kindle 2. Details about the issue and the demonstration are available here and here. The pictures were taken by Manon Ress, and may be used under any of the Creative Commons attribution licenses.

George Kerscher at the April 7, 2009 Kindle Demo, in NYC

Interview at Kindle demo, April 7, 2009, NYC

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Twitux

March 28th, 2009 No comments

I can’t say much for the name, and the appearance isn’t great, but Twitux seems like a serviceable Twitter client for Gnome based Linux distribution. I have found Twibble for Blackberry to work fine.

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Test of two twitter html widgets

March 20th, 2009 No comments


    follow me on Twitter


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    A french song

    February 12th, 2009 No comments
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    Protecting Consumers

    January 2nd, 2009 No comments

    Cross posted to Huffpo here.

    Back when campaign spending was limited by law, there was an effective quota on taking money from special interests. After the cap was reached, it was more effective to do favours for voters than corporate interests. One way to do this was to support consumer protection initiatives. Read more…

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    Markets for Financial Crime, in Huffpo

    December 14th, 2008 No comments

    Yesterday, both shocked and motivated by the reporting of the Maddoff fraud, I wrote a Huffington Post blog about Markets for Finanical Crime.

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    “Socialism” or Breathtaking Hypocrisy?

    October 26th, 2008 No comments

    After a week of John McCain and Sarah Palin complaining about socialism, I wrote this this Huffpo missive.

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