August, 11, 2004 archives

i picked up a grandstream budgetone 101 to use with the sip (voip) server we have set up at work. i just plugged in the server, username, and password info, and now i can talk with my colleagues all over the world, without long distance charges. pretty nifty. (well, it will be more nifty once more of said colleagues also get their hands on voip phones, or headsets with a softphone.)

i do wish it was a dual-line phone that handle pots in addition to voip.

when i’m bored, i can dial the echo server number and talk to myself via a server in sweden, which has a pleasant perversity to it.

blo.gs appears to be under some sort of strange indirect attack. it’s being hammered by various robots trying to index search results. so there’s requests from the feedster bot, the technorati bot, and all sorts of bots i’ve never even heard of. oh, and the the yahoo!, google, and msn bots have all decided to get in on the action.

it is extremely strange. perhaps it is supposed to be some sort of clever distributed denial of service?

last month, the revenue from google adsense ads was almost exactly equal to my monthly hosting bill.

this response to a news article about redeveloping an area in the miami area is spot on. (via hit & run.)