Archive for: May 2005

Digg is being hailed by some as “The New Slashdot.” Digg allows anyone to submit stories, much like Slashdot and others. Instead of an editor making a decision about whether a story should be approved, the users decide. I …

The one thing about staying up too late in the evening and having to get up early with a child is that I occasionally need a night or two where I don’t stay up as late and sleep. This is …

In trying to find someone other than those TWiTs to listen to (though I enjoy them immensely), I’m on the lookout for other interesting podcasts. I ran across Chase and Sam, two guys in Alabama who have their …

This has been one hell of a week for me. Might as well top it off with Friday the 13th. Not that I am superstitious or anything. Just seems ironic or silly or something. Dunno, it’s 2:30am and I’m tired. …

I have too damn many VoIP lines. But at least they all ring in one place now: my Asterisk server.

Unfortunately, I have a couple of providers that insist on locked adapters. I also have this Qwest PSTN line. …

It looks like Qwest has launched OneFlex, their VoIP offering. I was looking at this to see how different it would be from, say, a regular PSTN line with Qwest. It’s only midly cheaper.

Right now, I am listening to hold music. My own hold music. I have assembled various “instrumental” songs from my MP3 collection onto my Asterisk server as the hold music and set them up as part of Asterisk’s Music on …

For the past week or so, BroadVoice has been more offline than on. People having problems making and receiving calls. Some people got lucky, others got royally screwed. Tempers flared up in the Voxilla forums, we even banned someone …

Today, I was reminiscing about my days on Radionet. Heck, it’s where the name “PhoneBoy” originated from. Back when Radionet first started, it was on an actual radio station: KSCO in Santa Cruz. We were even syndicated nationally …

You know, I really dig This Week in Tech, which is what Leo Laporte decided to call his weekly podcast with all the cool people from Tech TV which started out with the name “The Revenge of the Screen …