WLAN, WIFI, MIMO, PITA

One of the small pleasures of working in the field of IT journalism is that these days some of the elder statesmen, whose words I keenly devoured when I was a spotty little teen geek (as opposed to a crotchety big nearly-40 geek), are friends with whom I occasionally go for a pint.

Such as hunkymouse.

I have been known to moan about 802.11x wireless networking before. I use it, I install it, I support it, but I really absolutely loathe, detest and despise the technology. It's a shambles which should not have been released until it was a great deal more polished than it is just yet.

So it's good to read some of the reasons why - and why the fix, if any, both won't be coming soon and will bring fresh grief of its own. (Which is, if you haven't spotted the connection, by, um, "Hank Maus".) I believe that he means 54Mbps when he writes of 22, but otherwise, it seems bang on to me.

Non-egomaniac plug

Robert Rankin to open Beer on Broadway, the Ealing Beer Festival

It's all my fault. Again. The organizers of BOB - "Beer on Broadway" - IMed me 'cos they know I know technofairy, so I ended up being the liaison between West Mid CAMRA & The Rankins.

Anyway, here's the spiel...

Quoth Rachel:
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Robert will be opening the Ealing Beer Festival, AKA "B.O.B." ("Beer On Broadway"), at 12 noon on Wednesday 16th May 2007. This year, the festival is being held at the Barclays Sports ground just off the A406, Hangar Lane. Amongst other tipples, including British ales, foreign beers, ciders and fruit wines, we will be partaking of specially brewed Large and Hartnell's Millennial Ale.

The event is outdoors this year, so be prepared for the English Spring weather!

More details can be found at the West Middlesex CAMRA website -

http://www.beeronbroadway.org.uk/
»

The full address of the park is:

Barclays Bank Sports Ground. Park View Road. Ealing W5 2JF.

It's here. Roughly half way between Ealing Broadway and Hangar Lane Tubes, I reckon.

I am under strict orders to be there for the opening and not to be late!