Archive for January, 2003

2001: A Phone Odyssey

Today the odyssey ended. I visited Bongo Wireless and had the C332 unlocked. It works. Finally. Fuck you Rogers. Anyone want to buy a slightly used V101? More in this space tomorrow. SONUG was good.

no, I’m not made of pure vitriol

Despite my scathing attacks below, I’m really feeling alright. Here to prove it is a non-threatening blog entry. (Is this a blog or a diary? Kind of both. Whatever.) Nintendo releases new Game Boy Advance SP. Ooooh, nice new design. Apparently it’s more comfortable than the original, which is good because my huge hands do […]

phone saga update

The C332 is locked. Rogers will not unlock it, of course, because they want it on a new contract to make back their discount on it. However, because I got someone to program that number with the C332’s IMEI, once I get it unlocked it should just work. They shouldn’t have done that, but it […]

now playing, the MacWorld keynote…

Live MacWorld keynote blog updates by Adam Tow. Some cool Everything2 links: Why strapping buttered toast to a cat’s back will not produce infinite power My brother made $700 in 3 hours by sitting in front of a grocery store

Hey Rogers: left hand, meet right hand.

Adam Tow, you are a GOLDEN GOD. I bow down to your l33t n3w+0n skillz. In case you have no idea what the heck I’m talking about, Adam is working on an XML-RPC library and Blogger API client for the Newton. It’s mad. It’s actually alpha and released right now. And it’s probably going to […]

it’s not XML-RPC, but it’ll do

This. Weekend. Sucked. Well, to be fair, only Saturday sucked. Well, it sucked, and then for a brief, shining moment, it was good again, but then it sucked again. Let me explain. On Friday evening I was installing my company’s VPN software on my home PC, so I can attach to the corporate network and […]