Why does NBC continue to string us along with horrible Olympic coverage? They show highlights, but spread them through the 5 hour block, so there's no way to plan ahead. "And coming up in 17 minutes, the semi-finals, featuring Ohno. See if he makes it to the finals, but we can't tell you when those are."
If I wanted to watch a show about athlete stories, I'd tune into the History Channel.
I want to see the sports. I'd like to be able to plan my time. And for that, please let me know that, hey, Speed Skating is on at 9:00. Snowboard cross coverage is at 7:30, and Curling, well, that's all day long.
But no, NBC wants to sell me a drama about Vonn and the Olympic gold, only stay tuned, because after this commercial for yet another asthma drug, the significant conflict in this story unfolds.
NBC Sucks.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The Last Straw
On Saturday night I had need of an additional wifi access point at my house. So, I scrounged up an old Belkin access point and plugged it in. Since I already have an access point running on channel 3, I just left the new one on channel 6. Some time later my son noticed that the Wii controllers would not sync. He had been playing the Wii for several hours so my response to his desperate plea of "Fix it", was "Go outside."
I thought nothing of the problem until Sunday when the Wii controllers still would not sync. I started to wonder if that additional access point caused enough interference to make the Bluetooth Wii controllers in-operable. Bluetooth is designed to handle interference by hopping to the next 1 MHz wide channel. However, I don't know how well that works when syncing. To get a feel for the situation I ran a nifty little program called wifi radar. According to it I live in what could aptly be described as a "wifi rich" zone. Every 802.11 channel had at least one, and usually several active access points.
My need of the extra access point expired on Sunday night and as soon as I unplugged the access point I tried to sync the Wii remotes. This time it was immediate Wii sync success, and they have been fine ever since. I guess that extra access point was the Wifi that broke the Bluetooth's back.
I thought nothing of the problem until Sunday when the Wii controllers still would not sync. I started to wonder if that additional access point caused enough interference to make the Bluetooth Wii controllers in-operable. Bluetooth is designed to handle interference by hopping to the next 1 MHz wide channel. However, I don't know how well that works when syncing. To get a feel for the situation I ran a nifty little program called wifi radar. According to it I live in what could aptly be described as a "wifi rich" zone. Every 802.11 channel had at least one, and usually several active access points.
My need of the extra access point expired on Sunday night and as soon as I unplugged the access point I tried to sync the Wii remotes. This time it was immediate Wii sync success, and they have been fine ever since. I guess that extra access point was the Wifi that broke the Bluetooth's back.
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