Month: May 2006

Well, lots of stuff happened last night. First, we went back to the hotel to change and what not. And went back out to South Beach. We walked around for a while just checking out the scene. We finally happened upon a club that Nathan wanted to go into. So we got in line. A few minutes later, some guy singled us out, and told us to come to the front of the line. Then a few minutes after that, we went in the club. It was a bunch of rappers. I had a whiskey sour that was awful. Nathan danced with girls. I left early (at like 4:00 am) and fell asleep next to Nathan’s car. I’d write more, but I am getting bored.

Well, me and Nathan have gone to Miami. We are going to see a baseball game on Tuesday (it will be my first baseball game). Of course, we are going to check out Miami while we are at it. So far we have walked around near South Beach. Quite the crazys. One guy was just walking in circles talking to himself. Some other guy stopped in the road to talk to some girl on the other side of the road for like 10 minutes. Someone else was trying to sell a DVD, “Crack Heads Gone Wild in NY.” So far, it has been trashy. Some big events going on, so there are little handouts all over the ground. Anyway, more to come, and check out the photo gallery.

I emailed a few people at Palm asking about x64 support quite a while back, but didn’t get much help. I was wondering if everyone who would like to use Palm (like the upcoming Tree 700p) on x64 could email them also:

ed.colligan at palm.com – President and CEO
ken.wirt at palm.com
john.hartnett at palm.com – SVP, Worldwide Sales and Customer Relations
jeff.hawkins at palm.com – Founder

It’s here! Picasa for Linux. Unfortunately, it runs on Wine, but still. And of course, it isn’t open source, but I am not going to bash Google for that. I don’t expect them to release it as OSS, and don’t ask them to. It’s their software, do with it as they wish.

I have signed up for VoicePulse. It’s a great VoIP phone service, similar to Vonage. The business plan may cost a little more, but I can get so much more with it than Vonage. Vonage would not give me a second line with my number and use it for faxes, but VoicePulse would. So I got them. Check them out! Of course, I have to wait 2 weeks before I can submit to have my phone number transferred because I just changed my Verizon account to two seperate lines (which they haven’t installed the second line yet), then wait another 30 days for the transfer to take place. But I can make long distance calls all day long if I wanted to! Anyone I should call?

No, my zip code is not 338011.

Vonage outsources. I really want Vonage, but unfortunately, can not use them, because they will not transfer my second phone number to the free fax line that they give you in the small business plan. I hate Verizon. Maybe it’s all the “V’s.”

I setup the best office color laser I have ever worked with before today. It was a Xerox Phaser 8500. Here are a few of the things that made it great:

• Solid ink tablets – no toner cartridge waste
• Network/USB support, and a great network page to go along with it
• Windows and Mac drivers built into the web interface, so you can just download it
• Setup program to install, only 1.5MB, and find the printer on the network in about 5 seconds
• Duplexing built in
• Incrediblely fast
• Great color
• Small footprint, and stylish
• A usuable LCD control panel!

Anyway, best damn printer I have ever worked with. I HIGHLY recommend one.

Well, my parents want to move even sooner, which means I have to think even sooner about what I am going to do. I am looking for some office space… about 300 sq feet, and I’d like to find it for about $300. Know of anything? I don’t need storefront… just office space, and preferably a little private, like a second story.

Also, what is so wrong with living in an RV while I build a house? Jessica thinks I am crazy. I’ve always dreamed of it… simplifying my life down to stuff that I can carry in an RV and get rid of so much materialism. How very un-Buddha of her. Of course, I am materially tied to my big screen TV, so I don’t know what would happen there.

My office now stays at a steady 72 degrees. It feels wonderful in here. Me and Jessica come in here and hang out every once and a while now too to cool down. My closet stays at about 75 degrees. There are currently two servers running in there (along with UPS’s, cable modem, router, switch). I will eventually have one more server in there when I figure out how to get a few things going on it (and get the time to do it). I wish I could put my MythTV box in there too.

I would have loved to do this: http://www.improveverywhere.com/mission_view.php?mission_id=57