vetula: chris kelley’s blog

Mesh networks are maturing - Networking From the Rooftop: MIT researchers are developing new routing strategies for a wireless network that hops data in the roofs of the city.
Fun facts:

The total cost of the equipment for each node is $685.
Instead of finding the shortest path between two nodes, their protocols try to find the […]

Kandahar Chronicles is the ongoing story of the day-to-day life of a relief worker based in Kandahar Afghanistan.
Ben Hammersly, who recently travelled to Afghanistan, is planning to run The Marathon Des Sables.

OK - So what if they are gay? And who watches network TV these days? But this is turning out to be a rather gay summer - successful gay-themed TV shows, US Supreme Court ruling against anti-sodomy laws, gay Bishop elected, and now gays are the pinnacle of evolution. (I’d take a big grain of […]

Rockin’ on without Microsoft: A report of how Sterling Ball, CEO of guitar string manufacturer Ernie Ball , moved his company to Linux after being sued by the BSA for having unlicensed Microsoft products. When I was actively playing in a band, I broke many of Herr Ball’s strings, sometimes deliberately. I especially like his […]

I always thought that delivering broadband internet over power lines was a great idea; however, it looks like there are some drawbacks that need to be considered. A Slashdot thread about the use of amateur radio during the NY blackout linked to this ARRL article in which the ARRL President claims that “BPL (Broadband over […]

Just returned from a month-long trip to Maputo, Mozambique (work), Lusaka, Zambia (work), and Cape Town, South Africa (vacation). Some pix from the Cape Town trip are now online on Lachko’s website. The flora and fawna - as well as the dining - in Cape Town is incredible. The Dassies we spotted atop Table Mountain […]