Comments on: A tale of municipal Wi-Fi gone terribly wrong

By: Deb Peterson

Deb Peterson — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:30:11 +0000

Is your house still vacant? Any interest in letting me house sit for April and May? I have just sold my townhouse in SLP (just west of Costco) and will be closing on the sale on April 15th. Then I will be shipping all of my stuff down to Cincinnati, where all of my family lives. Sort of an early retirement. But my job with Ameriprise doesn’t finish up until May 30th. So, I have 6 weeks here in SLP, without a place to live. Those “extended stay” places are very expensive. And staying with my friends, for 6 weeks, would definitely be overstaying my welcome. I would pay $1000 and I would be an incredibly reliable tenant. References available.

By: Doug Aamoth

Doug Aamoth — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:16:45 +0000

Yeah, tell me about it. It’s a terrible time. My wife’s from Boston and she wanted to move back. She’s a teacher so we had to move before school started. CrunchGear is currently made of two writers in Seattle, three in New York, and me in Boston. TechCrunch headquarters is based out west in Silicon Valley but we’re mostly on the east coast here at CrunchGear.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:47:44 +0000

Bad time to try and sell a house with the market like it is. What are you doing in Boston? I thought CrunchGear was West Coast?

By: Christopher Richardson

Christopher Richardson — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:07:56 +0000

Since they seem to like risky ideas I have a better one. Let cars power the internet… Remember those rubber tubes that used to cross the road to act as counters for traffic. Make a slightly bigger one with a fluid in it to power a micro turbine to generate power. For sure we cannot predict the availability of the sun but without any need for calculations we can predict that there will always be too much traffic….

Just a thought….
My other email….. crr_gm@eim.ae…. living in a VERY sunny country 24×7x360…maybe they would like to make an offer here?

By: yoshi

yoshi — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:41:10 +0000

They are ugly beasts. Originally they were going to be colored brown or green at one time. I can’t imagine why anyone thought that solar power for WiFi would be a good idea in Minnesota, in an urban area, with lots of trees, and 2.3 hours of sunlight in January.

But I live on the good side of France avenue – that being in Minneapolis and not St. Louis Park. At least in Minneapolis the municipal WiFi network being built is on preexisting light and power polls where it gets its electrical and you barely notice the antenna. I just noticed the network being lit up in my neighborhood the past week. So instead of 7 WiFi networks I can reach, I now have 8.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:25:15 +0000

I have to look at one of those poles everyday as I look north from my driveway. Good news is the pole is stuck in my neighbor’s yard and not mine.. She has dogs that bark until 1am everyday. What goes around, comes around…