... because the balloon drifted away!?! A report from Wall Street Journal that an Arizona based company, Space Data is able to send cell-phone trans-receivers into the stratosphere using weather balloons. And Google is talked about as being interested in a partnership or a total buy-out of the company for the same reason. Considering Google is actively involved in the US 700MHz spectrum auction, it makes a lot of sense... watch the report here
Via WSJ
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Open Source is good, but...
Does it pay like a regular job? The irony is expressed in this new comic strip called Mandatory Fun Day from the folks at The Daily WTF (Worse Than Failure). So here is today's (3rd) strip of the series
I did go through this situation once in my life. After graduation, I was searching for a job and about the same time, downloaded the source code for Firefox and started working on an idea for a extension. By then, I got a job and the idea never fructified. But I have made a small contribution to the open source community by doing bug fixes in a couple of tools that I had to use for my project, so at least I am a guilt free... are you?
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