I’ve been looking everywhere in Fredericton for answers to some questions I have about the “free wireless network,” Fred eZone. Couldn’t get them – anywhere. But I got them right away on Twitter from a tech guy in Moncton.
I couldn’t figure out why so many organizations etc. in Moncton were called Codiac. I searched and searched online, all I got was Codiac RCMP, Codiac Transit and so on. On Twitter, I got the answer right away – from a guy in Toronto.
I also just saw an item from a guy named Jay Rosen (in New York): “You know, the notion that Twitter truncates everything to 140 characters is crap when 17 of those characters are hypertext.” Exactly. (Also why Facebook is more Twitter-like now.) (Note: When he says “hypertext” he’s referring to the fact that tweets often contain links.)
btw … Codiac and Moncton? Codiac more or less means “bend in the river,” which is a reference to the Petitcodiac River, a bend that occurs at Moncton. (I knew you wouldn’t sleep until you learned that.)
(Once last thing … if you look at the Fred eZone page you may get the same sense that I did which is that it hasn’t been updated since about 2005, four years ago. At least, that was the latest date I could see referred to on the pages. On the main page there is a reference to a planned maintenance but, as there is no date, that could have been years ago. I just don’t know and I don’t think anyone else does either.)
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