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Archive for: January 200725 January 2007 Life HappensAs someone who blogs here about VoIP, Telecom, and Technology, I realize that you may not want to constantly be exposed to things like, for instance, pictures of my kids or a random thought about stuff going on at home. …
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24 January 2007 Your Blog a To-Do List ManagerI wrote up a piece for Web Worker Daily on using a blog as a To-Do list manager. There are certainly better tools for managing a To-Do list, but really, I wasn’t interested in learning yet another tool. I …
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23 January 2007 Nokia Licenses NAT Traversal Technology for VoIPUnlike Stefan, who doesn’t have much to say about this, I have a bit to say about Nokia licensing Eyeball’s technology for network address translation (NAT) traversal for their VoIP-enabled phones.. As someone who has fiddled a bit with … Should the FCC Be Abolished?dvorak.org slash blog highlights an article on Slate about the argument for abolishing the FCC in the US of A. The basic idea for creating the FCC in the first place was that radio spectrum was considered to …
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22 January 2007 WordPress 2.1 Now AvailableIf you run a WordPress blog, head on over to the WordPress site and download yourself a copy of 2.1 today! Upgraded this blog without too much hassle. Most of my plugins appear to still work, though check the …
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Which Hero Are You?If you’re a big fan of the show Heroes, take the quiz and find out which hero you are. For me, it was a bit of a shock: Be careful, for your ability to absorb others energy … Fun with ISP Tech SupportOne of the reasons I have two ISP connections is because, on occasion, one of them goes down. Last year, after I had switched over to DSL from Cable, my DSL circuit was down for four days. Fortunately, it happened …
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21 January 2007 Everyone Wants To See That Groovy ThingI was listening to an episode of Net@Nite this afternoon and it suddenly occurred to me that the Apple iPhone, as least as it stands today, is a bit like the Spiraling Shape in a certain song by …
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20 January 2007 Damn Small Linux 3.2One of my favorite distributions of Linux is called Damn Small Linux. The reason I like it is because it is small, fast, and runs on really old hardware fairly nicely. The entire distribution fits on a 50 megabyte … 19 January 2007 Apple iPhone versus Nokia N80ieGolden Boy Michael Robertson places the Nokia N80 Internet Edition up against the Apple iPhone. Guess who wins. Of course, I have some questions: Where can you actually buy a Nokia N80 Internet Edition in a brick and mortar store? … |