Why am I doing this?

Curious folks may want to telnet to bbs.kataan.org (Hyperterminal works nicely) and see what comes up.

Electroni-fun

The mailman delivered a USB data cable for my phone and my replacement Palm Vx battery. Now, my Palm will keep a charge longer than a day, my phone has a great new background image, all of my Outlook contacts are entered into it and the ringtone is set to the DOOM E1M1 midi [...]

Long day…

Not much to post; I’ve been working on a deadline to get a call center I run up and running on VOIP. We have a remote call center that connects over VOIP; we want the phones to connect locally in case of an outage at the main site.
IMO, the biggest obstacle to VOIP is [...]

Thinking outside the BOX

On the Pigdog list (”Bad Craziness at Impossible Speeds”) We’re talking about having Arnold save the country via a congressional amendment to allow foreign-born citizens to run for president.

> The much more straightforward way is to simply declare war
> against Austria, annex it, and then it’s part of the U.S.
Nah, Austria’s in the EU. [...]

flashback

I just went to an ftp site to download a file using a command line client. I was asked for a username, I entered anonymous. It allowed anonymous access, asked for an email address as password. Without thinking, I automatically typed in pfortran@crl.com.
I think I closed that account in 1995! Back then, I was dialing [...]

Why wait?

After many many trips to San Diego last year, I got my free Southwest ticket and free drink coupon book. Looking in the back of the book I noticed that you can order additional books at $10/each from Southwest.
It works out to be $48 worth of drinks for $10, definitely a good deal. It [...]

Moleskines, the IMAC of notebooks?

I’ve been trying to find a way to organize my thoughts, tasks, and plans. Palm PDAs are nice, but cumbersome and susceeptible to crashes/dead batteries/whathaveyou (In fact, I’ve been waiting 2 weeks for a replacement battery for my Palm V). I’ve always liked writing things down, and have noticed that since I’ve been typing [...]