Geek Bling

Municipal networking is a nationwide trend that has started to gain traction in Indiana. The most recent news comes out of Brownsburg, where the town council voted on Thursday to create a municipal wireless network that will cover the entire city.

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Check it out, we have IndyScribe t-shirts for sale, as well as bumperstickers and magnets and other fun knick-knacks and tchotckes.

I just got a DVR, yay! I've been wanting this for a while, as I have no working VCR and need some way to resolve the time-slot conflict between Alias and The West Wing at 9:00 on Wednesday nights. I'm also looking forward to recording some of the great movies shown on TCM in the middle of the night.

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Indianapolis Downtown, Inc. provides a list of 22 spots where you can get wireless internet access, some of it free and some for a fee. On the other hand, wi-fihotspotlist.com lists 36 wireless locations in Indianapolis. It's not clear from this list which services are free and which are paid. So an IndyScribe wireless outing/control panel training session is in order! Woo hoo! We are such geeks.

In a previous discussion we touched upon the subject of the general suckiness of Indianapolis radio stations. With the possible exception of high school stations and NPR, commercial radio stations have little to be desired. What's a geek-bling loving guy to do? In my case, it was XM Radio to the rescue.

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