[wsfii-discuss] Fwdfyi, Re: Wokbolic!

Tue Jun 16 12:23:51 UTC 2009

For the Wok and Wifi enthusiasts!
bon appetit!
p+2D!

http://tinyurl.com/lddast
(Bytes4All readers list, June 14, 2009)/ Fred. Noronha

Cooking up a tasty meal... of information (and data)
Posted Saturday, June 13, 4:00AM

"What's that for?" I asked.

"To cook.... yes, it's to cook," laughed Onno Widodo Purbo, who calls
himself "an independent ICT writer who dreams to see a knowledge-based
society in Indonesia."

Dr. Purbo showed every sign of enjoying his joke tremendously.

But in a little while, things were up and running. It was about
information, not steamed rice or sambal.

As participants at the PANALL2009 camp finished lunch, the diminutive
former academic turned tech-campaigner mounted the stairs and began his
strange demo.

By the time he finished, everyone was astounded by the simplicity of the
technology he used. And it's power.

In short, what he was doing was to take a wok -- the versatile
round-bottomed cooking vessel originating in China -- added on a wifi pen
drive, and manage to create rough-and-ready and cheap tool to extend the
wireless capacity of your computer. In this way, one could link up dozens
of others while sharing a single fat pipe to the Net.

(...)