Archive for: February 2005

Prior to leaving the San Francisco Bay Area, I made my regular pilgramage to the evil Frys. I finally decided what it was I wanted to buy: an improved WiFi antenna for my Linksys unit, a couple of 802.11g WiFi …

This evening I spent a little bit of time in Frys to “buy stuff,” though I ended up walking out empty handed. I had three reasons for going into Frys this evening: I had some time to kill, I have …

No, I’m not posting this in realtime to my blog. That’s the beauty of Notepad on a laptop. And no, I’m not watching some way-too-expensive TV offering from an airline. Alaska Airlines doesn’t even have any TVs on board, at …

I feel a bit like a sane person in a town full of insane people. I don’t get Skype. Oh sure, it “just works” in comparison to certain other things (e.g. SIP behind a NAT device), has good sound quality, …

I ended up spending a large part of this evening talking to my wife about our relationship. And while we made some progress this evening, we’ve got a ways to go before our relationship gets back where I’d like it. …

VoIP is just a small part of the overall telecom industry, so why have a category limited to just VoIP? I also rant about mobile phones (after all, I am PhoneBoy

Anyway, the only thought I can think …

I had heard/read some flack that the Internet registrar Go Daddy actually had their commercial pulled from the Super Bowl. Not having seen the commercial because we were buying my son a new bed during the first half of …

My wife and I had gotten into the habit of “not talking” to one another. Now it’s not as if my wife and I never talk at all, and it’s not as if the relationship with my wife is horrible. …

You know, reading a recent Andy Abramson blog entry about the different telecom mergers reminds me of an old Tom Lehrer song by the same name: Whos Next. The song has nothing to do with telecommunications, but rather who …

Skibare doesn’t think I see the growth potential of Skype with a million downloads a day. On the contrary, I do. However, the number of downloads alone is irrelevant. What I don’t see (and what Skype doesn’t tell us) is …