Seriously trivial thoughts
Just got this Panasonic KX-TG5776 phone for home and it just rocks. It’s one of those phone systems where only the base is actually plugged into the phone line and the other phones connect to the base. The main benefit is that you can have a phone anywhere there is a electrical outlet–you don’t need …
I had previously blogged that I needed to use the Microsoft XP drivers to solve Bluetooth connection issues I was having when I connected/disconnected remotely to my PC via RDP. Well, after I upgraded to v20 on my phone, I found that I could no longer authenticate the phone from my PC using Bluetooth. So, …
My 2008 Predictions Housing will not recover in 2008. Gasoline will be $4/gallon and stay there. Oil will stay over $100 barrel for most of the year. The market will take a huge hit, but bounce back by year end. Republicans will somehow hang onto White House. Lakers will make it the conference finals. Foreclosures …
Well, looks like I screwed myself a little by pretending to be european and upgrading my N95's firmware. It seems that Rhapsody subscription music will no longer play on the N95 due to licensing problems. Bummer. Well, I'll just have to live with MP3s until the American firmware upgrade becomes available. There is no way …
Well I just got tired of waiting for official US v20 firmware for my Nokia N95, so I hacked the product code from 0548763 to 0536062 (“EURO1 – Plum”) and was able to upgrade using the normal Nokia software upgrade application. The hack is pretty easy and you basically just write over the product code. …
I loved this superslim laptop from the moment I got it. Cost me $2100 around 2000. It's small even my today's standards and the magnesium alloy case puts many current laptops to shame. I used it for years and then handed it down to my daughter. She got a new one for her birthday so …
It's a love/hate deal whenever I take a technology class to keep up with my CPA continuing education. Yesterday, I took a “researching questions on the Internet” class. When typing in an URL like blog.mydomainname.com, she says that you have to type “HTTP://” first to get to the “Other Internet”. HAHAHA! What's worse is that …
Support for public Pownce notes has been added to TwitKu.com, the popular free social network mashup. Now you can monitor Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce feeds all in once place! Pownce is still working on implementing an authentication scheme for their API, so notes send to only friends (i.e., non-public notes) are not included in the …
I do most of my computing by accessing my main computer remotely using the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) function built into XP. I also recently got a Nokia N95 phone which has a super cool desktop app that lets you quickly sync Outlook, transfer files, etc. Well, for whatever reason, when I connect and disconnect …
