Archive for: August 2004

For the past four days, I’ve been in California at work. As I type this, I am sitting in the airport awaiting my flight home.

The main reason I was down in California was to meet with some consultants …

Part of the problem of moving ISPs, especially when you’re moving a domain with it, is that it can take several days before DNS fully propagates. What this means is that you typically get email in two different locations for …

As I stated in previous blog entries, I’ve had enough of csoft.net. While nothing has happened with them in a while, I decided that since I needed to renew phoneboy.com anyway, now might not be a bad time to …

Marcelo and I were talking today about me doing a seperate blog for VoIP-related material. It would be for Voxilla, of course, and would probably exist under the Voxilla domain.

Of course, that means two different places …

One of the features built into Windows XP Professional is the “Remote Desktop” feature. It allows you to use a graphical client to log into your computer and use it from a remote location as if you were sitting at …

My boss called me up today and said “guess where you need to be next week.” Yup, a few days in a real office getting some real face time with some managers higher up in the food chain and a …

A friend of mine at work sent me this link. Pretty cool, actually. Requires Flash.

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Gorm sends me an email this morning saying that my website got defaced! Sure enough, he was right. This is actually kind of embarrasing. I’m not sure how they managed to do it since I run a fairly tight ship. …

Just today, I had someone try and sell me on yet another VoIP provider. At almost $40 a month, for nothing more than anyone else offers, no thanks. I can get PSTN connectivity over VoIP for as cheap as $5.95 …

VoicePulse, one of the early consumer-level VoIP services, now offers local numbers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oregon, and a few other locations. Read more in this Voxilla story. Even today, VoicePulse is still considered one of …