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2007 Off to a Great Start in Las Vegas

Conventions, Las Vegas, Nevada, Sin City
Posted January 10th, 2007 by Christopher - 2 comments

The Consumer Electronics Show is now officially underway here in Las Vegas and the display of gadgetry is a bit mind-numbing. There doesn’t seem to be a huge wave of revolutionary products being launched, but the evolution of and consolidation of things that are existing – different technologies converging – is pretty damn cool. I did see a 100 inch + LCD flat panel I could use in my living room, though hehe

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Wireless Woes in Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada
Posted January 8th, 2007 by Christopher - 1 comment

With CES about to start, it certainly seems like there are going to be frustrated people around here. Fo the last week or more there have been some ongoing and intermittent problems with the wireless service providers’ networks in parts of the Valley. Text messaging has been unreliable with the messages simply not ever arriving and I’ve personally experience a couple of phone calls that the other person never received on their end – their phone never rang. This seems to be – for me at least – mostly problematic whenever I am trying to communicate with someone on a GSM network from my Sprint phone. To me, it makes us look bad whenever the phone companies don’t do their job. I hope things go more smoothly around the convention center area.

The Calm Before the Porno-Tech Storm

Las Vegas, Nevada, Sin City
Posted January 8th, 2007 by Christopher - 1 comment

It has been seriously slow the last several days. Scary slow. Uncomfortably quiet. This is the Las Vegas equivalent of the birds and other fauna fleeing ahead of an earthquake, the water receding far into the ocean before a tsunami hits. The events on the calendar for the next week make it clear: there’s about to be a lot of noise ’round here. It’s Consumer Electronics Show / Adult Video News’ Adult Video Awards and Adult Entertainment Expo (aka the “porn convention”) week.

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