Showing posts with label Communications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Communications. Show all posts
Monday, October 05, 2020

Alternate Means of Communication

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  If anyone wants to arrange more secure messaging that respects users privacy, I'm on Signal, and I strongly recommend it to others.  I...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Meaning and Understanding

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In order to communicate usefully and meaningfully (is anything less really communication?), one must be able to understand what others say, ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Mr. Watson... Go the hell away, I don't need you now

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I really hate talking on the phone... Always have really, but more and more so as I get older. I have to talk on the phone for hours and ho...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Satisfying Design, Unsatisfactory Solution

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I broke my phone yesterday. The screen I cracked back in July (a few weeks after I got the thing) cracked all the way through the LCD this t...
Friday, June 14, 2013

Our plan for new electronic leashes/tethers/lifelines

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So I mentioned in a few previous posts, Mel and I run our lives with our smartphones; both of which now need replacing: "I need new p...
Wednesday, August 04, 2010

There's a map for that, and it covers our area...

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Very very very irritated at the moment. I just spent four hours writing a several thousand word post, on the current state of the smartpho...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

There's a map for that... with nothing but toll roads on it

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I've been thinking about getting the Droid to replace my iPhone 3g for a while. Not that I don't love my iPhone; but we're movin...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

The Grand Unified Theory of Contact Numbers

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So, Mel and I just got our invites to Google Voice , which used to be grand central. Google Voice is a service that allows you to have one s...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Anyone know of a Skype ATA...

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That doesn't require a USB connection to a PC? It seems I can EITHER get a normal SIP ata that can run independently of a PC but not sup...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Dial tones

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Somehow, today became telecommunications maintenance and update day. A couple years ago, I was getting my internet services and cable from C...
Thursday, April 09, 2009

General and Extra Irritation

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So as part of my efforts towards better preparedness and "getting to where we want to be" I'm upgrading my amateur radio opera...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Get Yourself Connected - Voice

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In the first post of this series, I said I would split my posts on voice and data communications, because both are quite large subjects. In ...

Get Yourself Connected - Introduction

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I live and die by my connectivity. I'm a remote worker. I get into my actual corporate offices about once every three months. I need voi...