Archive for: April 2005

… to discover your DSLAM is down. On a Saturday.

My Internet connection had been working and then it stopped. So I called Qwest.net to find out what was going on. They tried to reset my port on the …

For the first time, my wife decided to “take the weekend off” and leave me with both kids until Sunday night. She did leave for one weekend evening one other time a few months back, but a weekend is slightly …

Today, I was lamenting about the fact that I still haven’t caught up from being gone last week with regards to reading my usual diet of RSS feeds. The big problem: keeping more than one copy of a feed reader …

I was originally going to send this to Wave Broadband privately, but I’m not sure I see the value in doing so. Due to my business contract with them, I must provide written notice of my intent to cancel …

According to Cingular’s announcement about their Q1 2005 earnings, despite increasing the number of people who have CIngular as their wireless carrier to over 50 million, average revenue per user is down 3.3 percent. To quote from the press …

I was having a discussion with a Voxilla employee about phones. She was mentioning her 7-year old daughter collects unused cell phones for some reason. She knows I have a ton of phones, and remarked that her daughter would be …

Okay, so we were a little late to the story at Voxilla, but now we’ve got some details on VoicePulse giving cash to previous VoicePulse customers or customers of other VoIP services. I think you’ll be pleased to know …

One thing I was having problems doing was using the Nokia 6260 to receive MMS messages. I had it sending MMSes, receiving and sending text messages, but I must have fat-fingered the settings one or two too many times because …

Here are a couple of pictures I took, the first with my Nokia 6260, the other was with my 9500 browsing voxilla.com on a 6260:

Om is pointing out an incident on DSL Reports where a VoIP provider told someone that 1150 minutes was “too much” for their residential VoIP service.