SBC is now providing WiFi access at SBC Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, reports CNet News.com.

Baseball fans bored by the slow pace of a game or wanting more statistics and information will be able to connect computer devices via Wi-Fi at San Francisco Giants home games this year, the team announced Tuesday. The Giants’ ballpark is, after all, called SBC Park, for telecommunications giant SBC Communications.

“We’ve created, if not the largest, one of the largest hot spots in the world,” said Larry Baer, the team’s chief operating officer. “We’re the first professional sports facility to provide people universal Wi-Fi connectivity.”

I’d probably use it.

ICANN surveys proposed Net domains | CNET News.com

The other proposed suffixes include .cat, .post, .asia, .mobi, and .tel.

What would a .cat site be, anyway?

“If you’re going to make an accusation in the course of a presidential campaign, you ought to back it up with facts.” — George W. Bush, 03/16/2004.

Chronicle staff writer George Raine has a well-written piece about the advertising campaigns and strategies for the Giants and A’s this year.

The A’s campaign to sell tickets at Network Associates Coliseum, like their style on the field, attempts to attract ticket-buyers by promoting a hip, young roster and a winning tradition. It’s a stereotype both teams hate, but the Giants “old money” is countered by the A’s “bootstrap” image.

Note: There’s a spoiler in there about a clever A’s ad coming up this summer.

NSIS is the installation SDK used by, among others, WinAmp. The output packages it creates are much smaller (less overhead) than comparable InstallShield packages, but the downside is that there is much more for the install programmer (me) to do to create one. The InstallShield IDE lets you automatically insert event handlers, functions, dialogs, and files to install; all of this (apparently) has to be manually scripted in NSIS. The tradeoff in size may or may not be worth it. I have a requirement to make the next version of the installation package as small as possible, and if I can lose the 1MB of overhead of an InstallShield package I’ll be well on the way to fulfilling that requirement.