Finished painting the kitchen and the hallway. All that's left is to do the hallway trim and do the bathroom. The house is going very nicely. Very pleased with the results and very happy that the nightmare of painting is coming to an end.
Started working on a poster today for a small theatre group called E.A.T. Very excited to be doing some graphic design work again. I didn't realize how much I missed it until I started "playing" again. Very enjoyable.
Need to read significantly long passages from a book for my Art class which starts next week. I moved me presentation date earlier so as not to conflict with the birth of our child (at least, hopefully not conflict). I figure the further I am away from that date the better the odds... but who knows. My son could surprise me.
Cleaned out the external harddrives of duplicate items taking up far too much space. I'd rather, I realized, risk losing them than have so many versions of the same thing preventing me from backing up relevant and important things.
Also, I set up synergy2 on the desktop so that my mouse and keyboard work on the laptop as well over the network. Very handy for getting rid of extra bulky cords and salvaging the posture while working on two machines at once.
Sarah is bringing home some brisket tonight for dinner as our kitchen is a mess of appliances (fridge, washer, dryer, etc...) all pulled away from the walls to allow paint to dry. Looking forward to it.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Google Voice
Got a Google voice invite today. Very nice service. Once they enable "group SMS" I'll be able to more quickly force people to use the new phone number (which will be nice).
Specifically since I don't "do" text messaging via a phone (as the cost is ridiculous) I'll be more likely to communicate with "the thumb-typers" in the future through a service more akin to e-mail.
A feature that is lacking - and will slow adoption of the service - is the inability for GVoice to adequately replace your current cell carriers voicemail when people call your old number. Also, it makes it somewhat difficult for non-smart-phones to call others with the new number to rapidly increase adoption.
At any rate, the idea is a good and welcome one. It makes me wonder whether the "area code" will continue to matter as people will (conceivably) keep a single number for their entire lives and simply change the devices associated with that number. What will the future hold?
At any rate, it is exciting for me because I've been waiting near 2 years for an invite to the service. Has it been worth the wait? Time will tell... but I can already see the advantages. For a person like me, who finds e-mail the easiest way to collect, store, and retain information I don't want to remember, this service allows people to call me via phone and I can treat responding more similar to an e-mail.
Familiarity wins the day for me. We'll see what I think once people start using it... but, I've never checked my voicemails before - I just might start now.
Booms.
Specifically since I don't "do" text messaging via a phone (as the cost is ridiculous) I'll be more likely to communicate with "the thumb-typers" in the future through a service more akin to e-mail.
A feature that is lacking - and will slow adoption of the service - is the inability for GVoice to adequately replace your current cell carriers voicemail when people call your old number. Also, it makes it somewhat difficult for non-smart-phones to call others with the new number to rapidly increase adoption.
At any rate, the idea is a good and welcome one. It makes me wonder whether the "area code" will continue to matter as people will (conceivably) keep a single number for their entire lives and simply change the devices associated with that number. What will the future hold?
At any rate, it is exciting for me because I've been waiting near 2 years for an invite to the service. Has it been worth the wait? Time will tell... but I can already see the advantages. For a person like me, who finds e-mail the easiest way to collect, store, and retain information I don't want to remember, this service allows people to call me via phone and I can treat responding more similar to an e-mail.
Familiarity wins the day for me. We'll see what I think once people start using it... but, I've never checked my voicemails before - I just might start now.
Booms.
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