Archive for: September 2004

First, AT&T CallVantage lowers their monthly rate from $34.95 to $29.99. A few hours later, Vonage announces that it will lower its price for unlimited US/Canada calls to $24.99, upgrading existing customers on their $24.99 regional plan to …

One of the things about moving old blog entries and doing it manually is that you get to examine your approximate state of being at a previous moment in time. This evening, I just finished the timeframe right about …

One of the downsides of working remotely for a company is that things like badges and business cards aren’t something you need all that often. Of course, that doesn’t remove the need for these items — after all, you do …

DSL Reports is running a story about Ars Technica is seeing IE popularity plunge. Ars Technica is kind of a geek site, so I would expect that it wouldn’t give you a true picture of the browser preferences …

I have found another use for my Dell Axim: Portable MP3 Player. 512mb gives me about 130 files of varying size. I can see why the iPods come with gigabytes of space now. The sound quality is excellent. I like …

As I was copying some MP3s over to the PDA, I ran across an MP3 I had of Deteriorata. The song was a parody of a group singing Desiderata, a poem written by Max Ehrmann, a poet and …

One of the things I like about my “new” job is that I have an excuse to actually obtain and play with new stuff. My latest acquisition is the Dell Axim X30. I got the 624Mhz model with built-in …

Because I’ve had to some testing with the Chat Cord that we sell at Voxilla, I’ve had an opportunity to make several calls via Skype using the Chat Cord. Since I don’t really know anyone in Skype land, it …

While it may seem strange, given my interest and usage of Voice over IP telephone lines for the past year, I decided it was probably a good idea to actually hook a real telephone up to my PSTN line I …

I’ve apparently been a little too busy to update my blog lately.

One thing I did on my recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area was attend the Check Point User Group meeting that was going on. …