{"id":508,"date":"2003-11-13T00:19:29","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=508"},"modified":"2003-11-13T00:19:29","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T05:19:29","slug":"show-and-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2003\/11\/13\/show-and-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Show and tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had another great WiFi meetup tonight, with all sorts of people and their electronic goodies.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kosmo.com\/blogs\/timsblog\">Tim<\/a> and I arrived at 7 and met up with Joy, who works her web wizardry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actratoronto.com\/home\/index.html\">ACTRA<\/a>.  Soon after that came a contingent of Tucows fellows, headed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byte.org\">boss Ross<\/a> who had his sleek Gateway laptop, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/accordionguy.blogware.com\">Joey<\/a> with his Mac laptop, and others &#8211; I&#8217;ll let them blog who all was there &#8211; I was wedged into a corner and not able to effectively schmooze along to the other end of the table. <\/p>\n<p>Joey&#8217;s housemate Sam, already a tech person, came to widen her geek experience and along with Joy helped to balance the X chromosome deficiency so often found at such gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of the non-camera-shy side of the table:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/brentashley\/wifi1113.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I had just bought a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unex.com.tw\/Newproduct\">USB wireless adapter<\/a>, so I had both the laptop and the Zaurus up and running.  I finally got a chance to use the Spotnik wireless access, if only for a short time since there was much conversation to be had.<\/p>\n<p>Ross and Joy got to play with <a href=\"www.knoppix.org\">Knoppix<\/a> on a couple of the laptops.  I&#8217;m pretty sure that next time we see Joy, she&#8217;ll be a newly minted Linux expert with tons of wireless toys and an empty bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had another great WiFi meetup tonight, with all sorts of people and their electronic goodies. Tim and I arrived at 7 and met up with Joy, who works her web wizardry at ACTRA. Soon after that came a contingent of Tucows fellows, headed by boss Ross who had his sleek Gateway laptop, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}