[QCWA] Fwd: 'Fire blogging' tech expert on how fellow evacuees and networks are holding up

[Richard Rucker]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Pete Norloff" <yahoo at toward.com>
> Date: October 24, 2007 7:21:52 AM EDT
> To: <fairfaxares at yahoogroups.com>
> I saw this over on Slashdot this morning. It's an interesting  
> article from
> within the current fire emergency in California:
>
> Retired journalist and mobility expert Jim Forbes is among the
> quarter-million San Diego-area residents driven out of their homes  
> by the
> horrific wildfires. Forbes has taken the opportunity to 'fire blog'  
> from his
> shelter and discuss via e-mail with Network World how his personal
> technology and the shelter's wireless networks are holding up under  
> the
> strain. 'The shelter set up a dedicated computer room with an  
> 802.11 a,b,
> and g network which worked like a charm. Lots of people brought  
> notebooks
> when they left their home, so there was a whole lot of IM traffic  
> in and out
> of the shelter. The local cell networks were subsumed by traffic  
> early in
> the day so people were texting friends and loved ones a lot.
>
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20911
>
> 73,
> Pete Norloff, KG4OJT