Charter Issues Yesterday

In the morning severe weather in New York City took out the satellite uplink for Viacom stations (MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, HBO, Showtime, and CineMax). It was only for about an hour and the stations were back by 9:30 AM.

And a construction company cut a fiber bundle near Allendale, MI. This resulted in Internet traffic getting crammed onto a backup path. You may have noticed web sites seemed a little slower but I did not notice anything significant.

Fox Sports HD

Do you have Charter cable? Do you have HD service? Check channel 791 later this week as Fox Sports Detroit HD will be launching. One odd thing though is it will have color bars on it unless there is a game.

Poor Person's GIS

Google Maps Mashups 2.0

Under the "My Maps" tab.

This is a really neat application that I can envision many uses for such as layering house prices on top of a layer of number of dog owners for example.

Cellular Developments For Northern Michigan

Mike Wendland reports in his blog Verizon ups wireless data speeds Up North

The Verizon high speed service has been available around metro Detroit for several weeks now.

Up North, the expanded Grand Traverse Bay area coverage includes downtown Traverse City, the Grand Traverse Resort, Cherry Capital Airport, Traverse City State Park, Acme, Bates, Grawn and Grelickville.

It also includes the following major roads:

- US Route 31 between Grawn and Yuba

- Michigan Highway 72 between Williamsburg and County Road 616

- Michigan Highway 37 between Michigan Road 113 North to the south end of Old Mission Peninsula

And the Traverse City Business News says Cellular One areas should be iPhone capable at the end of the year - AT&T Agreement Will Bring iPhone to
northern Michigan

1-800-GOOG-411

A new addition to Goog-411. 1-800-GOOG-411: now with maps

during your call to GOOG-411, just say "map it", and you'll get a text message with the details of your search plus a link to a map of your results right on your mobile phone.