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The folks at VoIP Guides have uncovered a “secret” to free calling “forever.” You essentially use an “infinite” number of email addresses and sign up for Jaxtr, which gives you 100 free minutes upon signup. This is what happens when you are a one trick pony and you essentially give the service away. People always…

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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt1pRAT63x4The conventional wisdom has always been that Daylight Saving Time saves energy, but that’s based on highly questionable data from the 1970s. We got some much more recent…

Trapster lets people with mobile phones document the exact location a speed trap or red light camera is. It works best with GPS and WiFi-enabled Windows Mobile or Symbian devices, but they have ways that people with any cell phone can report speed traps.I reviewed the Symbian version of the app, which like the service…

The rumor being reported by Engadget is that AT&T will finally get the Nokia N95-3 sometime in the second quarter of 2008. While there hasn’t been any major advancements in mobile phone technology since the Nokia N95-1 originally came out over a year ago, and the N95-3 is miles ahead of anything currently available through…

I obviously didn’t get to this before now, but last Monday, my wife took Zoe to the vet. She didn’t come home this time. I did get some lap time with Zoe before her spirit departed this world, so I took some pictures: Zoe did get even worse. She had a difficult time even drinking…

It was a difficult decision for my wife to make either way, but Zoe came home from the vet on Thursday. She was at least eating a few days ago, but over the past couple of days, that too has stopped. Her back legs are getting gimpy. At night, she cries every couple hours like…

The clan is a bit somber this evening as we come to terms with the fact that Zoe (pictured left) is rapidly deteriorating. She has a vet appointment tomorrow and we’re not expecting good news. We are not expecting Zoe to come home from the vet tomorrow.Several years ago, Zoe suffered kidney failure. We rushed…

This was put in the sidebar on an article about local bloggers here in Gig Harbor. Since the article was about personal blogging, my Vox blog was what was featured, rather than phoneboy.com. Hopefully the Peninsula Gateway understands this falls under fair use–I am talking about the article, after all–and won’t send me a takedown…

We’ve had our dose of winter yesterday. We got some snow that, at least in Gig Harbor, was washed away by the rains of the Pineapple Express. Meanwhile, Jaden took the opportunity to make a rather small snowman with the snow we had on our front lawn: Today, we went to our old neighborhood to…

I unwrapped and assembled the Christmas tree tonight. Needs fluffing and ornaments. And more lights.