I’m tired of paying silly cellphone roaming charges when I travel south of the border. I’m curious about the possibility of getting a US SIM card for my iPhone, and switching my “main” contact number to my GrandCentral number, which will then call various numbers (two cell numbers, landline, possibly softphone). I used a European [...]
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Soaring
This picture was sent to the Mozilla webmaster from a friend of Mozilla in Bariloche, Argentina. Julian says (w/ minor english tweaks): “I’m from Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, and yesterday I took this picture while I was climbing a mountain in the heart of the andes. It reminded me of your logo and I want you [...]
MailCo: More horsepower!
I’m very excited to share the following news: Dan Mosedale (dmose to his IRC friends) has agreed to help me launch MailCo. For those of you who don’t know Dan, you should know that he’s been involved in Mozilla since the early days, and has contributed significantly both to Thunderbird and to the Calendar project. [...]
Privacy: the new global warming?
Privacy is an interesting meme. Like the weather, it’s something that everyone likes to talk about but few actually do anything about it. Maybe, like the weather, that’s slowly changing. A few things have hit my radar recently: In today’s NYT, an article about Ask.com promoting a privacy “switch” in the war for search engine [...]
BA 84
There is no feeling quite like getting ready to board a transatlantic flight booked solid with both the very young and the very old, the very worried and the very infirm, a few hundred humans with varied cultural baggage and sometimes clashing ways of coping with stress. An odd sampling of humanity thrown together at [...]
Surprise!
Came home last night to find quite the surprise. A new 10-week old kitten. The older cats are coping fine so far, and the kids are in heaven. I wanted going to call him Mork, the kids Dots, we settled on Legs. “Legs Ascher”, it’s got a certain Las Vegas in the 50s ring to [...]
Timezone helper?
Dear Lazyweb, I’m recruiting globally, and that means that I spend a fair bit of time trying to coordinate phone call times involving several timezones. Is there a good website or OS X dashboard widget or … that people have found handy for that? The sites I’ve tried so far have been reasonable at asking [...]
Recent email tweaks
Not too surprisingly, my email traffic has grown since I took this job, in volume, diversity, and importance. I’ve had to do a few adjustments to my email handling, and I figured I’d share. First, to deal with the volume changes, I unsubscribed from a lot of mailing lists that I was subscribed to for [...]
Sorry about the accidental comment closure
I’ve upgraded my wordpress installation and marsedit, and in the process of exploring the new features closed comments on at least one post I didn’t intend to close. In general, I’m trying to require less moderation for discussion, but them spammers make it hard to trust the world.
