Tech DC

Online travel booking is easier than ever. And for us lucky folk in Washington DC with three airports (Dulles, Reagan, and BWI) there are flights everywhere and lots of deals. Below are some useful travel sites.
Travel Reservations
Travelocity - early leader in online reservations with roots back to CompuServe and AOL. Now known for the gnome [...]

Here are some resources to inform/panic you about the H1N1 Swine Flu that was just declared a national emergency.
Washington D.C. area residents should visit:

Swine Flu Vaccinations: When and Where to Get Them by the Washington Post. It has links to all the D.C., Northern Virginia, and suburban Maryland Flu resources. Local residents should go here [...]

Over-the-air (OTA) high definition television is great. It provides free high definition programming that is higher bitrate (meaning higher quality) than high definition TV from cable, fios, or satellite.
But it can be tricky to get antenna placement correct.
Channel Spreadsheet
I use a spreadsheet that I create from antennaweb.org data for installing HD OTA TV for DC [...]

Lightning Strikes
A  small office near Dulles airport in Virginia had a Business T1 line from Verizon because they didn’t qualify for DSL or cable Internet. Everything was working great for about 3 months. Then there was a big lightning storm.
When people showed up to work the next day, the Internet was down. Verizon told them [...]

According to The Washington Business Journal, AT&T  (meaning iPhones) and Sprint are now starting cell phone service in some DC Metro stations and will expand that coverage over the coming months.
Expanded Metro cell phone service starts Oct. 19
More cell phones will be working at some of the region’s busiest Metro stations starting Oct. 16, under [...]