Archive for: April 2004

I guess AT&T Wireless, soon to become a part of Cingular, is really hurting for customers after the botched Siebel CRM upgrade caused them to hemmorage customers at a very key time: when local …

Hi, my name is PhoneBoy, and I am a gadget freak. My office is littered with various kinds of electronic devices. VoIP? endpoints. Mobile phones. Computers. Cables. Lots of cables. Hubs. Switches. Various devices I’ve acquired over the years that …

With the help of a few people:

* RayLodato
* RobertGraham
* GuyR
* KurtFalde
* AndrewBarnes

I’ve …

orkut is an online community website designed for friends. It was designed by a programmer at everyone’s favorite search engine Google. It is one of the many “social networking” sites that are starting to form. …

Something I’ve been trying to figure out with regards to SIPphone is: what’s Michael Robertson’s business plan here? He started mp3.com and Lindows, what’s he up to here?

SIPphone is very similar to Free World …

One of the problems with switching to a new spam filter is, quite simply, training it. Most spam filters these days are Bayesian-based, which means it does statistical analysis on the words present in your incoming email to decide whether …

The past several days, I’ve really been in need of a “happy place.” The scary thing is that the road to my “happy place” has involved the theme to The Electric Company or Red Dwarf.

Rather good? Rather distrubing in a twisted sort of way, or is it twisted in a distrubing sort of way? Can’t decide.

I like the Red Dwarf theory on the JFK assassination: have Kennedy shoot himself from …

csoft.net decided to disable oldblog.phoneboy.com today because the main page rendering program was misbehaving. I can understand their need to protect their “shared” servers for the other users. Their method for addressing the problem leaves a bit to be desired, …

For those of you who did not use computer bulletin boards in the 1980s with 300 baud modems, ASCII Art is pictures made up of ASCII characters. ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is used to represent …