Monday, May 3, 2004

A one-hour hate for T-Mobile

I have a T-Mobile HotSpot account, yet need to pay extra to use one more hour of the service here at Heathrow.

Yet, while paying extra to be on the service, I cannot go to a single new location, or click on any link, without having to go through a page that forces me to enter my temporary ID and password; and more than half the it time loops me back to the same sign-in page again.

@#$%&*, etc.

Outbound links

From a departure lounge here at Heathrow...

I added a comment (can't link directly to it, far as I can tell) to Jeff Jarvis' latest in the Stern Thread.

Jim Thompson: Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Some guys I know may have just developed the last link in a worldwide, free VoIP system. His pointer goes to e164.org. Very interesting stuff.

Just from the title I like the idea of People's DNS. Thanks to Marc for the linc.

Homeward bound

Flying home today. See ya on the West side.

Also, much gratitude to Euan and his family for their hospitality and good company. I'll miss them, which is something I don't often say when I'm leaving for home on one of these junkets.

And thanks again to Linux.ie and my other hosts in Dublin. You've all been terrific.

Your IT

The improvements keep coming to IT Garage. Also the authors. Here are The days of Daniel Boone are over, by NZheretic (David Mohring, whose home blog is IT Heresies) and Garage Mechanics, Open Source and Tools, by Ken Camp (whose home blog is Digital Common Sense). Note the personal pix, which are new, too.

My own latest at ITG is Respecting Ward's Law, which I wrote while hanging out with Euan and talking deep IT trash.