Archive for: January 2004

I threatened my co-workers that I’d bring in my Sipura into the office while I was here this time, and sure enough I did yesterday. At times, I felt a bit like a salesman, espousing the virtues of having your …

I spent the day locked in a hotel room with a bunch of my coworkers. Several of them asked me when Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG was coming out. Any day now. I called my editor on Tuesday, and she …

My usual workday is within the confines of my own office at home. My commute is but 13 stairs long. There’s generally no noise, except for the occasional child running down the hallway or beating on my doorway. If people …

This evening, I have to go down to the Sillycon Valley and spend a few days down in the home office. I’ve got the travelling part down (I’ve been doing trips to California for several years now), what I don’t …

Yesterday, I took the opportunity to take my son “out” (he’s almost always wanting to go somewhere — anywhere but home it seems) and went to Best Buy. Aside from buying a remote to replace our DVD/VCR remote that magically …

Over the past several months, various people have sent me requests to provide contact information via Plaxo, a company that appears, on the face, to be offering a free address book that allows others to update their own information. I …

I got a sneak peak at the upcoming configuration portal for Broadvox Direct today. I updated my page with some screenshots to wet the appetite. One of the problems I ran into was a problem I run into occasionally: Lack …

My new book Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG should be out in a couple of weeks. I’ve already received the “Folded and Gathered” version of the book (essentially the book minus the cover, used to document printing errors …

As I’m starting to see useful tidbits on other providers, I need a place to “collect” this information. Today, I started a new TWiki for VoIP and moved the few Voip.VoIP-related articles I already had to this page. Hopefully, over …

For some reason, it seems to be difficult to find a multiline cordless phone that doesn’t suck. What I want seems to be impossible to find:

A cordless phone that isn’t 2.4 Ghz. Most of the idiots who …