Archive for: December 2005

Taken with my Nokia 6102. Kind of hard to do a self-portrait that doesn’t suck.

This posting on the Voxilla Forums describes one shady way of recouping some of the hundreds of dollars Vonage spends on customer acquisition. They are subsidizing hardware cost somewhat. I guess this is like an early termination fee for …

Using this little tool called Performancing for Firefox, I can blog from within my browser using a built-in tool. While I certainly blog from within my web browser all the time, this is different.

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After listening to the recent Security Now podcasts that have went over various VPN techniques, I decided that I would play with them a little bit. Understand that most of my VPN experience is with both Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 …

Andy Abramson sent me an out-of-band email about what Om blogged about: Wholesale Blog Plagarism. It looks like everyone got the site knocked offline as of now. But who knows how many other of these sites will pop up …

From about 6:30am this morning until about 8pm this past evening, we had no electricity at our house. It made our typical Christmas meal with my wife’s parents, well, a bit different than usual. Instead of turkey, dressing, and all …

Looks like Mother Nature has decided we should go without power for Christmas. It’s storming really bad right now, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the wind knocked a tree into a power line somewhere.

Around 6:30 this morning, I woke

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I’m one of those Americans who celebrates Christmas. And no, my Christmas doesn’t have Christ in it, though if yours does or you celebrate some other holiday, then feel free to leave an appropriate greeting as a comment.

My wife’s family

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I have had nothing but problems with my DSL line since Monday. The basic pattern is like this: the line will stay up for anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes, lose connectivity, then spend a couple of …

This sorted story on PCS Intel about ROCKITtalk’s Sorted History suggests one reason that having service with a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) might not be such a great idea. Ignoring the possiblity that ROCKITtalk is some kind …