Archive for: April 2006

One thing I realize that I like is having my personal travel entertainment on one device–my mobile phone. It contains everything I use on a plane–my podcasts, offline email, and a reasonable way to blog. The entertainment per square inch …

Ken has returned to the lovely weather we’re having in Washington to comment on my How much QoS does a Residential End User Need posting.

While “broadband” connections are starting to become prevelant, they aren’t exactly everywhere. …

Ken Camp talks about how SMBs–that’s Small Medium Businesses–are having to fend for themselves with regards to QoS. I’d say that applies to a typical end user too. Ken points out that certain software firewalls are offering QoS, which …

Anyone who knows me well or has read my blog for a while knows that I have a ton of mobile phones. In fact, I had enough that I had to recently take several of my older phones in for …

For some reason the whole concept of Getting Your Blog Noticed–a great post with lots of useful tips–reminds me of prom and just about every dance I attended in High School and College. Me, trying to get noticed, unsuccessfully. …

I have played with the “Flight 6″ build of Ubuntu’s Dapper Drake, which is by now finished upgrading to the “beta” release of Dapper Drake. The install from Live CD was not perfect, but it did a fairly good job …

I have to give Jeff Pulver some credit for coming up with this nifty idea about how to get the word out about our potenially eroding net freedoms. Save the Net is a contest where you can submit your …

From the “no duh” category, Gartner just released a report that provides a recommendation to carriers about the need for them to embrace the Internet Instant Messaging model. That means, instead of charging a per-message fee like they do with …

The past several days I have been trying to find the right mix of computers to have sitting at my desk. Part of this was caused by a desire to decrease the amount of noise nearby as I seem to …

Today I posted my first post in a new blog I created over the weekend. Unfortunately, most of you will never see this blog since it’s inside the day job’s corporate firewalls and contains potentially company confidential information. In fact, …