VoIP is here!

I’ve been spending the weekend setting up Asterisk and putting it together with VoicePulse to give me a full featured virtual phone system

Geocaching

We went geocache hunting this weekend. Jean has put some pictures and information on her website..

Haiti, 1995 - Operation Uphold Democracy

Well it looks like Haiti is back in the news again, for all the wrong reasons

thought for the day.

McDonald’s Heiress to Donate $1.5 Billion to Salvation Army

Can you name the last capitalism-bashing entrepenuer-hating ralph-nader-voting american socialist who donated $1.5 billion to charity? Didn’t think so

Doughnut holes and differentiation

Well I went to the local doughnut shoppe for breakfast this morning. Same kind that’s in every stip-mall across the united states. Got a ham-and-cheese croissant and a cup of coffee. With the microwaved croissant they gave me a doughnut hole. I am not a big doughnut person but I suppose the gesture struck a chord with me. It made a mental impression on me; I will always remember this doughnut place as the place with the free doughnut hole. It set itself apart from the rest of the strip-mall doughnut shops. I guess all that differentiation stuff isn’t just for the fourtune 500

How the weekend shaped up.

Sometimes small get togethers get outa hand. Scott really knows how to put together a party. The street filled with cars, and dozens of revelers wandered the neighborhood. The music was loud and pulsing, the drinking heavy. But it’s all fun and games till it gets outa hand and the cops arrive. I suppose that’s the ultimate sign of a good house party. Turning lemons to lemonade Scott took the opportunity to take some photographs

Mexico's Copper Canyon

One of the most magical places in Mexico is the Copper Canyon. Reachable from Los Mochis on the coast or Chihuahua inland, a train snakes it’s way up into the mountains and into a region that is timeless in it’s scenery and ancient in it’s native cultures

A California Road-Trip

The ordinary route between the Bay Area and Los Angeles is Interstate 5. But when you’ve got a T-top performance car you go for the extraordanary. Sticking to breathtaking coastal routes and scenic mountain passes reminds us all why there’s more than just ‘economy cars’ produced by the auto manufacturers

Four days on the Chesapeake

Well I found myself out of work and was long overdue to visit Mom. I hadn t seen Mom for three years; she d been living in Sarajevo and was home for the summer long enough to study French in preparation for her move back across the pond to Paris. I, Mom, and the rental car made a point of exploring the amazing and historically rich areas around her home on the Chesapeake Bay

NASCAR for the rest of us.

Where s the motorhome? I heard one of the organizers say. The late motorhome was only a motorhome on the outside. Inside it contained all the electronic instrumentation, audiovisual gear, and roughly one thousand pylons (red cones, for us laypeople) that would transform this airport tarmac into the local version of Daytona Speedway