Twelve Black Code Monkeys

Engadget has a piece about inferior Christmas lights causing interference that may be effect DSL connections. While I haven’t been having problems with my DSL connection, my Treo 600 cell phone seems to be having issues when I’m at home this week. Everyone I talk to hears a loud buzz. So loud that they have to hang up after a pretty short period of time. Then again, maybe my family is just sick of talking to me and that’s a nice excuse. We don’t have any lights up outselves and neither do our neighbors on each side of us, but two doors down there’s a house with a decent number of lights. I just wonder if all these lights are causing problems for others. We don’t even live on a block that has that many big light displays, just the one that I can tell. Although other blocks not too far from us are pretty much dripping with lights and other garish stuff. It’s fun to look at all these monstrosities, but if they are going to make my cell phone reception suck, that’s another matter!