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Albuquerque Journal Comes in for Some Ideas and Coffee
The Sunday Journal has discovered coworking. This new concept of independent freelancers, home-based workers, and entrepreneurs sharing office space and facilities which has appeared in town was recently explored in an interesting article in their “Office Hours” section. It’s now online at the Albuquerque Journal website. (Non-subscribers will have to answer a question before they can read the whole piece.) Prominently mentioned among other fine coworking spaces in town was SWCP’s entry into the field, Ideas and Coffee, conveniently located across the hall from our Uptown offices. It even mentions the free seminars offered every week on Internet, marketing, and other topics for people getting started and already involved. It’s a great way for home office workers and those looking for alternatives to meet, share stories, and learn. Check out the calendar of upcoming events, or sign up for email reminders and get out of the same old rut.
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Albuquerque – Best Spot to View May 20 Eclipse Spectacle
Like many things, astronomical events rarely live up to the advance hype excited enthusiasts promise, but this one should. Late in the afternoon of Sunday, May 20, there will be an annular eclipse of the Sun – and Albuquerque is dead-center along the path of maximum coverage. And the view should be truly awesome as the Sun sets as a burning ring of fire. Solar eclipses are, of course, caused by the Moon passing in front of the Sun. But the Moon’s distance varies, and so those eclipses where the entire Moon is between us and the Sun vary also. Since the Moon was at its closest to Earth recently with the “supermoon” when it was last Full (and therefore opposite the Sun), now on the other side of its orbit it will be at its farthest point from us when it passes in front of the Sun, and will appear smaller. While during a total solar eclipse, the Moon exactly covers the entire solar disk, in an annular eclipse like this, a thin brightly-glowing strip around the edges will still be visible. This means that when the Moon passes before the Sun that afternoon, it will not cover it completely but leave a red burning circle in the sky. Though the sky should not blacken and the stars come out as the flaming atmosphere of our parent star suddenly becomes visible, the view from right here should be pretty … Continue reading
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Albuquerque’s DSL Dead Zones
Believe it or not, right here in Albuquerque, a 21st-century metropolis that some science fiction writers once imagined as the future capital of the Solar System, there are still many neighborhoods and small areas where it is impossible to get highspeed DSL Internet access. Even more surprisingly, not all of these dead zones are on the fringes of the urban sprawl, either. Some are located right in the busy heart of the city. One such residential dead zone, for instance, is right next to Coronado mall. It’s just a mile or so away from our Uptown office, yet as far as getting DSL service, it might as well be in the middle of the desert. Other DSL dead zones are scattered between Singer and Osuna, along the Jefferson Corridor, out toward Alameda and Los Ranchos, around Yale and I-25 up towards the Sunport, and even up by Juan Tabo and Central. Smaller patches also exist here and there seemingly without reason – one popular coffee shop on Menaul, for example, can’t get DSL at all, yet a vacant lot across the street could be provided with 3-5 MB without any problem. The holes in DSL coverage are not uniform by any means, and there are no helpful maps or listings. In fact, the information above was gleaned from remarks of our installers. But it turns out that there is a way to know. The only way to actually find out … Continue reading