Archive for: April 2005

30 April 2005

Is VoIP for Everyone?

Filed under: Uncategorized - 30 Apr 2005

A few VoIP bloggers got their panties in a twist when they read the Lance Ulanoff article saying that VoIP wasn’t for everyone. Yeah, what else is new? While I do not disagree with the premise, and neither does …

28 April 2005

One Year Ago

Filed under: Uncategorized - 28 Apr 2005

This evening, I spent some time migrating over old blog entries from the TWiki version of my blog. This is a project I’ve been meaning to do for some time, along with moving some other content on oldblog.phoneboy.com to …

27 April 2005

Nokia N Series Phones

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Apr 2005

Personally, I thought my phone lust had died down. Then I saw the Nokia N series phones. All I can say is: Oh. My. God. N90. Or do I want an N91? Or an N71? Ah the choices… I …

Fish Tank Animation

Filed under: Uncategorized - 27 Apr 2005

You’ll need a program that can play .3gp files to see this.

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26 April 2005

USB Powered Fish Tank

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Apr 2005

Last time I went to a CPUG Meeting, I won a USB Powered fish tank. Good thing they are plastic fish.:)

King County’s Education Campaign on VoIP and E911

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Apr 2005

I was looking in a recent issue of Computer Source Magazine, a Seattle tech publication. There was an ad in there from King County (Seattle is in King County), which explains that NOT ALL VoIP/Broadband Phone carriers provide full

Sipura gets acquired by Linksys, er Cisco

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Apr 2005

When I saw this press release came across my blog reader, my first thought was: holy @%@#%, Batman. Linksys is assimilating Sipura. I privately joked that this was a possiblity, but I had no real knowledge that such …

Skype’s NAT Support Isn’t Special

Filed under: Uncategorized - 26 Apr 2005

Leave it to smart dudes like Aswath to dig in and discover, in Skype’s own documentation, that Skype’s NAT traversal system is none other than UDP hole punching, which is basically what every commercial VoIP provider does. Instead of …

25 April 2005

Blogging from my Mobile

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Apr 2005

Now that I have blogging software that doesn’t suck as bad, I’m now set up to blog from my mobile phone using a Nucleus plugin called PostMan. A new blog entry is only an MMS from my phone away. …

My First Podcast, and it was ROTSS

Filed under: Uncategorized - 25 Apr 2005

I heard the hype about podcasts, but I finally decided to see what it was about. And I picked a good first podcast, too: Revenge of The Screen Savers.

For those like me who have been living in …

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