We’ve all heard a motivational spiel about “bad things happening to good people” … and “all things working for the good” …
I was a key player in a case in point, just the other night.
Like a fool, I was carrying clean laundry down the stairs, when I learned the hard way that a light was [...]

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If every person in my old hometown followed me on Twitter, the followers of @pingwifi would double … the bad news? The number would still be smaller than the calorie intake in my frappuccino.
And then, if those followers from Twitter migrated to this Web site, which is my goal … well, who knows [...]

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What celebrity do people say you resemble?
That is my all-time favorite icebreaker question when I meet a stranger. I even prefer that question over “What is the best rock concert you ever saw?” I must say, I have a pretty high success rate when I meet someone and then guess to which celebrities [...]

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Moral convictions and personal hygiene/bodily functions are taboos, in my opinion, when it comes to blogging. I try to tread lightly. Normally, I wouldn’t bring up a moral issue because they are so charged with emotion. In addition, I find bathroom humor to be bad form.
However …
This true story compelled me to make exceptions.

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When I was a youth, the newspaper could never get it right.  One basketball article referred to me as “Pingelton.” Ha!  I considered changing my name to “Pringle,” after hearing that one so many times.  Another basketball article — my favorite — reported that “Pingelli” scored 20 points in one game.  My best friend’s dad [...]

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I think it may be considered a bad thing when someone approaches you at your hotel, and asks, “Do you work here?,” based on how you are dressed. I am pretty sure a lady assumed that the black uniform pants and pressed collared shirt of my Dirty Gigs work clothes meant that I was [...]

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My first Wi-Fi road trip — an 18,000-mile excursion a few years earlier — wrapped up in Austin with a quick visit to the Wi-Fi Alliance world headquarters and another music festival.
So, Austin’s recent SXSW festival was not my first rodeo, but it certainly wasn’t the end of the road either. And frankly this [...]

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It is a magical day at PingWi-Fi. Through the magic that is Facebook, I know that I have a friend/colleague who is working in Santiago, Chile. Ha! If he would sign up for Gowalla or FourSquare, I could tell you what restaurants he frequents. What I can tell you is that [...]

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Before there were links, there was this TV host/author named Art Linkletter. He was famous for the phrase “kids say the darnedest things.”
They do.
My friends have a young child who has just started preschool and apparently they spend most of their time counting … so he counts everything. He told his mom he [...]

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Occasionally, I blog about nothing — dating back to the days before I migrated my content over from a MySpace blog.
Remember MySpace? I digress.
So … “blogs about nothing” — it’s what I know most about.
Well … I was driving home the other night thinking about some friends who have a new baby. That [...]

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