Archive | January, 2004

Vonage Setup and Review

21 Jan 2004

So I got my Vonage stuff yesterday. It was easy to setup and I was making and receiving calls within about 10 minutes. However, when using the MSN Messenger and iChat, I was getting some strange behavior like my internet connection was being briefly dropped. I concluded that this must have to do with the [...]

Vonage Signup

16 Jan 2004

So I just signed up for Vonage. I’m excited to try it out and I’m make sure to write up a bit of a review. If anyone else out there decides to sign up, I can refer you and we both get credit for a free month (credit depends on plan you sign up for).

Another Look at Vonage

14 Jan 2004

I am taking another look at Vonage. For $15 a month I can get a number that is local for both my brother and my parents while I’m up in Waterloo. It gives me 500 Anytime/Anywhere minutes and it looks like incoming calls are free. Seems like a pretty good deal. Oh and it looks [...]

Killer My MSN

9 Jan 2004

What would make My MSN a killer app is if it were combined with RSS and weblogs. I should to be able to add a wider range of content than just MSNBC, New York Times, etc. Anyone should be able to create a “feed” that can be included into a My MSN module. I had [...]

My MSN

9 Jan 2004

Along the lines fo my last post and Goyer’s recent sell out I’ve been thinking about how Microsoft could very easily end up crushing all it competitors in the next few years. Despite serveral articles (too lazy to find links) about Linux gaining popularity and Apple doing wonderful things with Mac OS X, I forsee [...]

Platforms

9 Jan 2004

I’ve been thinking a bit about the state of computing with regards to what programming languages and more generally what platform I should develop for. I’ve generally thought that ideally I could develop things that are platform indepedent. And to some extent I still think that is possible. But it seems a lot of programs [...]

I’m Alive

9 Jan 2004

So what’s up!! It’s bee a few months now since my last real post. Since then there have been a number of elsewhere links, not a lot of activity. Well since my last post I have finished my univeristy degree (Honours Bachelor of Mathematics: Computer Science major) at UW. I am now ready to enter [...]