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I got a new phone on my desk at work. It’s a VoIP phone. It took a number of reboots to get it working. Eventually we figured out that having it plugged into a old 10Base-T hub might be the problem, and plugged it into a 100Base-T port. Bling!

Oh, I did managed to um, “crash” my phone, and it needed a reboot. (My, that sounds so very strange!) I’ve also managed to connect to it with a web browser, and heck, I even made a phone call or two.

How incredibly exiciting! I mean, if you’re a phone geek or something. Which I’m not.

The difference between working at home and working at the office? At the office there aren’t cats watching over me. Right now I’ve got one cat sleeping on a metal cabinet two feet above me, and another one on top of my monitor, which, I’m pretty sure, can’t be good for heat dissipation. It is however, very cute, in that “cat” sort of way.

Update: Temporarily lost our net connection when cat fell of off monitor onto cable modem.

Today we’re sitting in front of a computer with an email client running, and an IM client running (that’s all normal) as well as a landline phone, a cellular phone, and an FRS radio. The email client and IM are for work, and the phone is the “home phone” and the cellular phone is really just an SMS receiving device, and the FRS radio is for the sick child upstairs to request nursing services.

Devices provided by Panasonic, Motorola, and Nokia. Software provided by Mozilla and Fire.

(Thanks Rorschach!)

Yesterday I spent over 2 hours driving, over 3 hours flying, and about 4 hours waiting. Oh, also had a brief meeting in between all that.

And I must say, I thought the Carl’s Jr. at BWI was bad, but I think the Taco Bell there might be worse. In contrast, the Burger King at MKE was actually decent.

I was unable to connect to any open wifi networks in Maryland, though I did find a couple. The signal strength where I was showed zero for all of them. (Some of them may have been FBI honeypots, but I can’t talk about that.) At BWI I finally did locate a 120 volt outlet, there was some Australian guy using it with his laptop, I asked if there was wifi, and he said yes, but it wasn’t free. :( He proceeded to make fun of the Apple yo-yo power adapter, and shortly after that he got up to leave and said he would see me later, though I sort of doubt that.

Anyway, another fun trip… glad to be back home!