One of the things that is making this transition to Check Point Software easier is the community of people that support, use, and sell what used to be called Firewall-1, but now goes by a few different names and offers many more functions than just firewalling and VPNs. It’s a community I have...

(Or, ten folks whose blogs I should’ve post more comments on in 2008.) 10. Darla Mack.  If you’re a Nokia nut, there’s no better destination.  The self-proclaimed “mobile diva”, Darla tries just about everything with her Nokia phones. 9. Rich Tehrani. The brawn and br...

Image by PhoneBoy via Flickr Personally, I’m not a huge fan of Christmas. It’s not that I’m not a fan of families getting together, seeing the joy of the kids opening Christmas presents on Christmas morning, or even seeing “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the 30th time...

Late in 2000 my company launched one of the first free VoIP services in Italy, Chocophone, which was based on a proprietary protocol in order to improve the quality of phone calls over dial-up internet. In addition to this, the proprietary protocol let us make a very lightweight softphone without th...

I took a week off of blogging. You know what? It wasn’t enough Maybe it’s because I spent the week in Ottawa working and experiencing failure after failure in terms of my technology. Before I get into my technological woes for the week, here’s the few items I managed to get out thi...

This is what the bathroom door in my son’s hospital room looks like after his class sent over their “care package,” which included a bunch of handmade “Get Well” cards. The truth is, he’s doing pretty well. Other than the fact he’s got an IV and a drain atta...

Ewan over at SMS Text News dropped a bombshell in one of his posts: (SMS Text News is the 7th most influential site on the planet for the term Nokia, by the way, according to Buzzlogic. Phoneboy, you’re above me, I think.) He sent me a screenshot from Buzzlogic’s service from November and su...

There is something about pinball machines. Despite the fact they have evolved from electro-mechanical monstrosities into the digital era, they are a very physical experience. For all it’s variations, it’s basically you, a ball, and a playfield. How fast can you push the button to make th...

I’ve never really like the idea of Daylight Saving Time. Apparently, some folks in the 1950s didn’t like it either, as this Drive In Intermission excerpt shows: WPvideo 1.10 Direct link to video The conventional wisdom has always been that Daylight Saving Time saves energy, but that̵...

Ok, this doesn’t put me in the big leagues, yet, but you have to start somewhere. A local reporter at the Peninsula Gateway, the local Gig Harbor newspaper, was doing a story on bloggers in Gig Harbor. She managed to find my Vox blog through a series of Google searches and wanted to interview ...