San Juan County Gigabit Fiber to the Home: Open Letter to Opalco Board
Dear Opalco Board Members, Privatizing the Opalco membership owned Fiber Optic Network is not recommended. Privatization will lead to narrow choices, higher prices and poor performance due to capital service requirements. Opalco’s Board should take the following steps. Establish a [...]
Fiber to the Home: Recommendations to San Juan County Commissioners
Local Road Construction Requirements City-sponsored road construction projects that involve tearing up streets should include the requirement that underground conduit, for future use, be installed at the same time. We concur with Google’s recommendation
San Juan Islands and Google Gigabit Fiber Update
Last year, I delivered the San Juan Islands Gigabit Survey to Google in Mountain View. After a wonderful tour of their area, they explained that over 1100 communities had applied. Between 50,000 and 500,000 homes were to get Gigabit Fiber [...]
3D Printing
It started a few years ago. About 10 as I recall. My first exposure to 3D printing was a seminar about 3D lithography. In this case an ultraviolet laser scans out a layer of an object on top of a [...]
Eastsound Instruments
Little known outside of local residents is in the heart of Eastound next to the Post Office. You’ll have to scramble a bit to find it but it’s worth it. I spoke with the owner for a while this week. [...]
Orcas Island Photo Contest 2010 – Judges Book Produced
In the latter part of 2009, the first Orcas Island Photo Contest was launched, by yours truly. The intent was to bring photographers together, share the fun and work of building a yearly Photo Contest. With over 50 photography enthusiasts [...]
AT&T Offering Free 1,000 Rollover Minutes
Just text Yes to 11113020. Apparently the day the Verizon iPhone went on sale, AT&T is saying well, voice minutes are not scarce like spectrum is.. So in light of the free extra minutes we move AT&T’s rating from D- [...]
WSDOT San Juan Islands Live Ferry Map
WSDOT has some interesting services to customers, the trouble is, most of us don’t know about them. Orcas Island TV wants you to know, so you can get the most out of traveling to and from Orcas Island, San Jan [...]
Northwest Aviation Conference & Trade Show
The 28th Annual Northwest Aviation Conference & Trade Show is the Northwest’s premier mid-winter aviation event! As the Press Release states: “Shake off the moss and come on out to the Western Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup. You and your [...]
