Tuesday, July 31, 2007
FCC rules on the 700 Mhz spectrum
Good news for consumers, not so good news for standard operating procedures for America's cell phone companies.
Read all about it here.
Labels: Technology
Today TV4US, a.k.a. AT&T and other telephone companies, have launched a new series of ads about cable competition in Wisconsin. Since I've been working on a policy project about this, I have a couple of thoughts on the ads.
This legislation (AB207/SB107) was introduced in February. It passed the state Assembly in May. But the State Senate refered it to the Joint Finance Committee after its telecom committee approved it.
Even with Democratic Party Chair Joe Wienke lobbying on behalf of AT&T, the Democrats are still stalling it. For what? Useless PEG programming?
Every month or so I see an AT&T crew put up a new U-Verse node in Green Bay. (They look like this.) They finished one down the road from me in May. They are finishing one near the UWGB campus on Scottswood Drive. I have mapped out on a whiteboard where all of the boxes are on the east side of Green Bay and there are at least 12 of them by my counts.
If the Legislature doesn't pass this law soon, I will be pissed.
Labels: U-Verse, Wisconsin Politics
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Where I've been and where I'm going
All things in life must pass. No, it's not just the title of George Harrison's first solo album, but rather an attempt in an explanation of where I've been and where I am going.
I transfered all of the blog postings from Fighting Phoenix.com to my personal Web site here. I let the domain expire because the whole Fighting Phoenix concept was abandoned after the 2006 election. Essentially, it became my personal blog. On again, and off again, that was the blog's story for much of 2007. I didn't have much passion to stay up to date on the news and politcal happenings in and around Wisconsin.
When I got notice that my domain would expire July 27, I decided to call it quits on the Fighting Phoenix blog with its own domain. Since I had already wrote nearly 200 posts since the start of blog, and approximately 20 or so on my personal one, it was an easy choice to keep it on the Internet through my personal site, jonhayden.com. Yes, the blog is now called the Fighting Phoenix Web Log. My fighting spirit is still present and I am forever tied to UWGB, so it all makes sense...well, at least to me.
This blog will probably less political, more philisophical, and definitely more ramblings about living in Green Bay. I can picture my rants on the Milwaukee Brewers right now.
And now, more about what's going on with me.
Since the end of the semester I have been quite busy with life. I moved, I got a new job (which rocks), had a computer die and rebuilt, and life is just now starting to settle down a bit. Everything has calmed down.
Life is good :)
Labels: General
Friday, July 27, 2007
The Doomsday Clock is ticking...
Sometimes I wonder if the world is coming to an end. I mean, seriously, take a look around at what is in the news...
538 pot plants found in home
A 51-year-old Rosendale area man faces drug charges after investigators found 538 marijuana plants in his mobile home Tuesday.David W. Gutknecht appeared before Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Judge Dale English for an initial court appearance Thursday morning. English ordered a $500 cash bail and told Gutknecht not to possess any controlled substances without a prescription.
Gutknecht is charged with manufacturing/delivery of marijuana and maintaining a drug place.
Investigators from the Lake Winnebago Metro- politan Area Unit went to
Gutknecht's mobile home, at W11243 Ros-Eld Road near Rosendale, according to the criminal complaint.
Gutknecht allowed the investigators into his home and told them he'd been growing marijuana plants for a year. He said those plants yielded one-half pound of marijuana.
He admitted to smoking the controlled substance daily, the complaint said.
Inside the mobile home, investigators found 538 marijuana plants, 43 grams of marijuana stems and 88 grams of processed marijuana. They also confiscated 18 handguns and 15 rifles, including some that were loaded, according to the complaint.
English also ordered Gutknecht not to posses any firearms.
Man Exposes Himself to Young Children
Police are looking for a man who exposed himself to several young children in Appleton Tuesday night.According to police, the children were playing videogames on the lower level of a house in the 1700-block of North Linwood when a man entered through an unlocked sun porch and exposed himself at the patio door.
He was described as a white man, about 5'9", weighing about 150 pounds. He wore a black ski mask and a long-sleeve black T-shirt.
Police are looking to see if this incident is connected to a string of indecent exposures in Appleton, Green Bay, and other area communities dating back to 2005.
Police Arrest Suspected Bully in Lemonade-Stand Robbery
Oshkosh police arrested a 17-year-old suspect for an assault and robbery at a lemonade stand.Police believe the older boy punched eleven-year-old Austin Cundy outside Austin's grandparents' home on Tuesday, and stole a container with money and Austin's wallet with his library card and student ID.
The teenager faces robbery and physical abuse charges.
"I'm happy that they arrested them and that they took him away and he can't do this to other kids," Austin reacted.
This was in the last two days. A old man growing pot in a mobile home, a sick man exposing himself to kids, and a sick kid stealing from a lemonade stand.
Add in the freak accident at EAA today and the plane landing on Highway 41, as well as the death of a young woman at Lifest, I am starting to get freaked out. There is so much sick and strange shit out there, I wonder if I shoud leave my home.
I really want to know what's next....er...nevermind that.
I can just see it now, raining frogs and locusts.
Labels: General
