Rodent Regatta

A BIG ENDEAVOR
I’ve got the urge to get back in the game

would be appealing right now. The post below makes it sound as if they are literally building a temporary city in the middle of the desert. Last night I watched a Discovery channel show about the Gibraltar Bridge, a 9 mile (conceptual) bridge design that might one day link Europe to Africa. With towers 3000 feet high and structural challenges never before solved, the bridge would cost an estimated $15 billion and would be the largest construction project ever.
Yesterday, we mentioned moonshot-scaled projects in bits and bytes. Sometimes, at the end of the day, it is very difficult to see progress with those kinds of projects. That’s part of what makes them so difficult to manage. However, the brick layer knows how much he gets done each day. It would be fun to tackle a project of epic scale that has such high visibility.

Burning Man Wi-Fi: Raines Cohen, veteran Mac god and doer of good deeds, signed his latest post to the BAWUG wireless list with the following tech detail from Burning Man: from Black Rock City, Nevada (site of Burning Man) via Tachyon satellite wireless (thanks to Cliff Cox of Oregon Country Fair Embassy), current initial 802.11b coverage (SSID ”internet”, open) covers about 2/3rds of the city (soon to be Nevada’s fifth largest) from a single node on Playa Info’s tower ”downtown” at Center Camp, will be upgraded through addition of repeaters as the city grows and as PlayaNET public-access kiosks and intranet network comes online. [80211b News]