A landline number without a landline: Sipgate Just Works™
Paying BT or Virgin Media £10-£15 per month for a landline telephone seems like a waste of money when I have a mobile phone contract which gives ...
Paying BT or Virgin Media £10-£15 per month for a landline telephone seems like a waste of money when I have a mobile phone contract which gives ...
I don't much care for Simon Willison's (or in this case, the person he's linking to's) implication that Java programmers are misguided fools in need of help ...
On Monday 1 August, we moved into our new house. On Monday 22 August, we got an internet connection. Fortunately, I have a shiny Android phone with WiFi hots...
I'd noticed for years that sending outbound e-mail from Thunderbird to my server on port 587 took far longer than it should have - about six seconds of stari...
I read with interest the news that ICANN has approved the ability for companies to register .anything domain names (so KFC could register .chicken and have h...
Over lunch with some colleagues last month, the subject of why Microsoft is paying $8.5bn for Skype came up. "Simple", I replied, "for years, governments hav...
I'm pleased to report that (having fixed the IPv6 on my home WiFi), my HTC Desire S running Android 2.3 picks up an auto-configured IPv6 address on its WiFi ...
After years of thinking about it, and even writing about it, I've finally bought myself a smartphone. As I write, I'm coming to the end of my third week with...
We've been having a spot of bother with update-grub not working on our Debian Xen guests since upgrading them to squeeze. The symptom: update-grub (as run af...
In June/July 2010 I spent ten days travelling in Rajasthan, India with friends; this is my diary of the trip (full list of entries here). Today we left Jaipu...