Archive for: July 2005

It’s funny, last week Andy was saying how Skype is like Open Source and how he points to this scathing piece from Stuart Henshall on
how Skype’s developer ecosystem needs major improvements.

I think I agree with …

I looked at my Cingular bill today. Last month, I was in Ottawa for five days. I racked up quite a heafty bill. Not surprising, but it seems that roaming in Canada shouldn’t cost $0.79 a minute US. Next time …

I’ve been in talks with the fine folks at the Check Point Users Group about hosting the FireWall-1 related content on their website instead of mine. They tell me the project to copy the stuff over will begin in …

My wife and I seem to be from different planets when it comes to the types of media we like to consume. It boils down to the fact that I am a guy, I’m a geek and my wife is …

My son has been begging us to let him watch SpongeBob. We were telling him “you can’t do it until you’re five.” My son just turned five a couple of weeks ago. When he was in the video store today, …

When I read this blog posting from Andy Abramson: Is Skype Almost Open Source, it made me want to puke. I will give Andy this point: Skype is creating a community around itself. There’s nothing wrong with that. I …

If you didn’t watch the Live8 concerts, you can find videos of the performances on this site, which just link to the videos on AOL’s servers. These videos are huge, so don’t try this with dialup.

If …

The world must be coming to an end if Sotuh Park is going to appear on non-cable TV. Not that I personally mind, but…

One thing I absolutely hate about 1&1 as a webhost is that their provided webmail application sucks ass. So for my wife and other members of my family, I have installed Open WebMail, which is actually not a …

Various pictures I took from my Nokia 9500 during our Independence Day celebration.

We spent the afternoon at the Manchester Fuel Depot, which is run by the US Navy. One of our friends happens to be a Commander …