Archive for: October 2006

31 October 2006

TalkPlus–Making Your Mobile Phone The Only Phone You Need

Filed under: Uncategorized - 31 Oct 2006

Quite honestly, I don't think I am going to be able to add a whole lot of insight to what seems to be the big story of the day–the introduction of TalkPlus. I tried to arrange a meeting with

30 October 2006

Traffic, Weather, Time, Vonage, and You

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Oct 2006

I should probably clarify something I said in my last post about Qwest providing traffic and weather information. I believe the weather information is provided through the information service described in the Yellow Pages. You can also get a

29 October 2006

So Is Vonage Innovating Or Not?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 29 Oct 2006

Rich Tehrani thinks Vonage is innovating by offering free weather and traffic reports, whereas Andy Abramson thinks otherwise. I'm with Andy on this one.

Vonage and services like it stopped being interesting to me a long

27 October 2006

Friday Roundup

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Oct 2006

It's kind of a slow day, so I've got a few backlogged items I want to write about:

Ubuntu 6.10 is Out: Everyone's favorite Linux Distribution has upped the version to 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft. Included in the new

26 October 2006

I Heart Twitter

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Oct 2006

Today, the folks at Twitter have rolled out a couple of new features. I've previously written about it. It's an insanely useful tool that has gotten a bit better.

First, now it is possible to sign up without

All Kids Love Backlog!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Oct 2006

I'm still catching up from being in Finland. I suspect I will be a bit behind the eight ball for a bit longer since I will be "on vacation" next week. Not going anywhere special, but my son is only

25 October 2006

PhoneGnome Links with Grand Central

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Oct 2006

I previously poo-pooed GrandCentral, but when I had read in PhoneGnome's blog that PhoneGnome could interface with GrandCentral, I figured I'd give it a try. It sort of eliminated the excuse I had: one more phone number.

On the

24 October 2006

WiFi On The Ferries in Seattle

Filed under: Uncategorized - 24 Oct 2006

There has been plans to outfit the ferries in the Seattle area with WiFi access. For the past year or more, it has been an "Experimental" service available for free on some routes as well as at the Seattle ferry

The Finland Backlog Post

Filed under: Uncategorized - 24 Oct 2006

I didn't comment on too many things when I was in Finland last week. I'm still playing catch up in Google Reader. Here are a few posts I flagged last week. I didn't get to all the posts I flagged,

23 October 2006

Monday Morning in Silverdale

Filed under: Uncategorized - 23 Oct 2006

I’m sure my camera phone doesn’t do this view justice.

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