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Continue reading →: Second Life
Crazy on-line world. Must to be fun to have a second virtual life. I can’t wait for Philip to get the thing out of beta. Echoes of the gay 90s (not a bad description of the 1995-2000 era IMHO).
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Continue reading →: Skis for Me and the Kids
Now that we are on our third season of skiing, its pretty clear that I and the boys love it, so maybe its time to get off the rentals. Something tells me that the spring clearances will be great this year because of the recession and poor skiing out here.…
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Continue reading →: Where are the Cycling Blogs?
Pack Fill – A Cycling Blog. Amazingly, this is the only google search hit for someone writing about bicycling and cycling with a blog. How sad. Actually, I’m the first hit. OTOH, this guy is a category 2 road racer, so I have to show a lot of respect
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Continue reading →: Ericsson T68 Unlock
Connie has an Ericsson t68 and is going overseas. She will need to use a local carriers SIM card, but her phone is locked. Here is what I found out about unlocking: WirelessAdvisor.com Forums – Do you provide, or need, unlocking services? Read this. Be aware that T-Mobile and Cingular…
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Continue reading →: Calling from home: VOIP vs. 1010 vs. Calling Cards
As part of looking all this calling stuff overseas, I hit a bunch of VOIP sites. A pretty interesting review. I actually tried some of them from Ignition and they were amazingly good and cheap too. These are sorted in Google page rank order and the analysis shows they are…
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Continue reading →: Senegal Roaming
Connie is headed out to Senegal. Here’s the mobile operator. I need to get her the right SIM card for her tri-mode phone. Wow, is this complicated. Fortunately John did some research on Spanish SIM cards and such, but Senegal is a little bit farther afield. Here is what I…
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Continue reading →: Google and DMOZ Directories
Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project. Every want to get into Google’s directory system. Right now, my buddies aren’t in it. Turns out that Google uses the Open Directory structure, so all you have to do is click on Add URL in the right spot in DMOZ and…
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Continue reading →: Wireless Rockets
Geekfishing Blog: Rocket Update. Check out Adrian’s modification to our group Christmas present. It used to be a model rocket that could take a few still photos at a few hundred feet. A hundred hours later, it now has a webcam in it with 802.11 that can take real time…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft and the community
Pushme-pullyou. Great thoughts by Joe on what to do about the “community at large.” It is nice to know there are folks inside the ‘Soft who are wondering about what to do about the external world. my initial reaction is this: I know that to a great degree, Microsoft employees…
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Continue reading →: Microsoft is jealous (and scared of) of Slash Dot and Scripting News…
The Scobleizer Weblog. Great comments from someone in the blogging community about how Microsoft deals with the influential masses. I can see both sides of the story having been on the outside for three years now. The debate is fasicinating.
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