January 2007 Entries
My last post on tethering the Blackjack as a modem needed a tangential update.
I've been working out of my father's office in midtown the last couple weeks, using a spare desk and their DS3 Internet access. One small issue is their firewall blocks hamachi's (the excellent vpn tool) direct VPN mode and the backup SSL mode isn't working consistently enough.
A key thing I need to do with my hamachi setup is access our servers from Visual Studio. Fortunately I made the call to keep my development environment in a virtual machine. This makes it portable and easier for me to keep...
I mentioned in my initial blackjack post that I knew I could hook up my phone to my laptop and use the data connection through it, but I wasn't sure how well it would work and that I might need to go out and get a separate card and data plan. Well, I'm happy to say it works really well and I have no plans for a dedicated card. I have to use USB because there is an issue with doing it over Bluetooth and Vista (I'll post an update when I get that working). I used Speakeasy's...
I'm going. You should too. Upcoming.org link Technorati tags: Northern State, concert, hip hop, long island, all girl band
I hate voicemail. It is probably because a high proportion of my voicemail is stuff I was supposed to do but forgot or meetings that I'm late for or it's a recruiter that wants me to call them back and decides that right then is a good time to take five minutes to say not much of anything in particular. So when I bought my Blackjack, I just didn't set up voicemail and it has been over a month now. People were suspect though because the Cingular message they are given is cryptic and makes it seem like my...
I added a badge to my left nav from RapLeaf. They are building an independent reputation system. Initially they focused on buyers and sellers, taking what eBay has done for nearly ten years and abstract it away from a single site and out into the Internet. You can imagine how helpful this could be for buying/selling via craigslist. Recently you can see signs that they are adding non-commerce related functionality -- primarily the ability to say something like "I know Tim. I am endorsing Tim as a good person" I'm putting it on my blog because I'm...
Emily and I opened our presents to each other on Christmas eve. Her family has high tolerances for early gift opening, basically anything in the previous fortnight is fair game. My family is in the one small token sized present immediately before bedtime the night before camp.
I said out loud "let's open them at the same time in case we got the same thing for each other" because the boxes were of similar dimensions.
But after holding the package meant for me I said "oh wait, no, mine is heavier, they aren't the same, you go ahead."
Emily unwrapped her...