Instead of viewing only the last 10 Furled bookmarks, see all my Furled entries with descriptions and/or subscribe to my Furl RSS news feed. Why not join Furl yourself for an interesting way to search the Web... and please share your bookmark and RSS news feed addresses with me.

North Korea detonates a nuclear device on 9 October 2006, and the news services go ballistic. In the USA, Fox News, CNN and MSNBC went non-stop once the announcement was made, but I chose to look elsewhere for the news.

My first stop was KBS in South Korea where I could watch a 15-minute on-demand news video and listen to the international service of KBS. Click on the blue News Today KBS World graphic for video, the 24-hour Channel 1 button for audio; both are to the right on the home page. There is also an "Internet Broadcasting Service" page.

I'll add links to my Furled entries, and you can subscribe to my Furl RSS news feed to be alerted to additional postings. Let me know what you find.

(9 October 2006)

Numbers, boy, do we have lots of numbers! I paid a visit to the firm Pics that hosts our domains and the domains of our clients to say hello and tidy up some business. Don Kleinschmidt, the Internet Services Manager, shared some interesting e-mail statistics with me. The Pics server software blocks all but four (4) legitimate e-mail address to our vintage 1994 domain.

On October 1, 8500 e-mails were shunted to the bit bin; 13 passed through to our computers. I was speechless. Urk! It was the third highest count for the day, passed only by Camden County (NJ) government with 1,000-plus e-mail accounts and the Pics' own domain (also 1994) with 16,500 pieces of blocked mail.

Then Don rolled up our report for a month from September 1 to October 1, inclusive, and I was even more shocked. A total of 261,605 e-mails addressed to our domain hit the filters; 474 messages were deemed suitable to pass onto our desktops. That's 0.18%, people. Looking for a place to hang your new Web site? Is there any question as to who it should be? Thanks, Don!

(02 October 2006)

The Etón E100 portable radio is being closed out by Radio Shack this month of June 2006. Limited to quantities on hand, you may also find the larger paperback-sized E10. One store had the E10 (550 memories) for $50 and the E100 (200 memories) for $80; another store had only an E100, for $50. I bought the E100.

The E100 is sized so that I can slip it into my jeans pocket. The frequency coverage is 0.52-29.995 MHz and FM 88-108; you can change parameters to the MW 9 kHz step and 76-108 FM. The SWBC bands from 120 to 11 meters can be stepped through, tuning is 5 or 1 kHz increments, AM mode only. FM stereo in headphones; button headphones included. Two AA batteries (3 vdc), included, seem to power the radio forever. I doubt that I'll bother dragging an adaptor around. A neat trick is the radio power button defaults to the sleep mode (120 min default; I changed it to 90 min) so there is no accidentally leaving the radio on all night. I can tell at night the E100 doesn't like the 23 ft (7m) reel antenna I dragged out of the parts box. Stronger 49m signals are heard 910 kHz lower. The "chuff" is muted on band-scanning, 5 kHz steps, begun with a key-press, but not when manually fine-tuning at the 1 kHz step. On the 21 in (50 cm) whip alone, I was surprised to hear the Voice of Turkey on 5975 at 03 UT (Where oh where has the BBC gone? I thought they had deed and title to 5975.), and I was pleased to find that the usual 49m powerhouse signals didn't obviate the use of the 49m band. Just for the heck of it, the next day I had the E100 with me while out in the Pine Barrens (taking some photos) and I heard the VoT 1830 UT English sign-on to Europe on 9785; quite listenable on the E100's whip. Considering the normal street price of the E100, in my opinion the radio performs significantly better than I probably should expect and I think I picked up a bargain. (For comparison, my other receivers are the JRC NRD-525, the SONY ICF-7600GR, the Yeasu VR-500 and Yeasu VX-6.) (11 June 2006)

Lord Stanley's Cup

A friend, Craig Yanta, and I were heading back to work from lunch (on Friday 18 Nov 2005) when I overheard a photographer say "...the cup is in the hotel." He was talking to two mounted policemen. There is only one "cup"...

We detoured to the Marriott Hotel, and there it was. Lord Stanley's Cup was making a tour of Trenton before being shown at that night's Trenton Titons game.

Only a few people were in the lobby, including the NHL Hockey Hall of Fame's cup caretaker and a Titans spokesman. We could look all around and touch the cup; I found the Flyers' two wins engraved on one of the rings. My wife and I were at the first Stanley Cup win (the second was won in Buffalo) during 20-plus years of season ticket ownership.

The next day, the Trenton Times newspaper had a photo of Craig and me looking at the cup.

All neat stuff, on just pure luck...

(19 November 2005)

Don't try this at home. Watch this. (29 April 2005)

Audio and Video Broadcaster
Streams on the 'Net

Some months ago I put a special media page — links go directly to the audio and video feed, rather than the top-level station page — together for several reasons: (1) an alternative to listing 'favorites' in the various separate streaming media players; (2) in some of the media players ring access to the media links no matter what computer I may use. The popularity of this information has spread among friends, and so the page has been expanded and cleaned up for all to use. It also has been useful to those listeners who tune in New Year's Eve as it arrives around the world on December 31. Go to the page here. Please send feedback, comments by clicking here.

(17 February 2005)

Stress? Anxiety? Depression? Do you have the urge to... ? Me too. Watch this.

(27 January 2005)