I tried faxing over my Vonage line today via the Motorola VT1005 gateway with my Brother M740 fax machine. Nada. Just a click and dead.

So I called Vonage and the dude was awesome. Raised my voice quality back to highest (now need to check my router again), changed my SIP registration expired down to 300 and had me dial with *99, to tell the moto it is a data call.

It worked flawlessly on the first shot!

More registered Democrats will see Fahrenheit 9/11 than will vote at the polls.

People! Do NOT use Windows Internet Explorer, ever, ever, ever! I’m not even saying get a mac, but at least go get Mozilla or Firefox!

Up to 9 more patches today and 4 new holes in IE. Read more here

Trip to Victoria was great! TK4 is in full swing now. I have an accountant and QuickBooks, might even become an S-Corp. I’ve been busy learning new technologies, such as Tweak. The PMUG general meeting last night was a blast I saw sweethaven from IRC and met a bunch of nice people, answered questions, had cookies and apple juice, of course.

Tooth has not been hurting for two days, but I still know it is there. We postponed the crown for 10 days to see how it heals.

Got some really cool product ideas for Geeks R Us. Heck if I am going to be a contractor to USC, I might as well do my side products I have in mind. Time to start earning that house so I can build disneyland in the backyard.

I got this kick ass watering tractor from Home Depot made by nelson. Saw that ACE sells them under their brand name and there is even a John Deere one! Now I need to run some tests to see if it can run over the connection between two hoses. If it does, I can do 200ft in a shot!

Cleaned out 100,000 emails from old employers. Very cathartic.

I still need to update this blog to MT 3.0. I’m getting behind!

I’ve had some super great news in my life, some of which will have to wait, oh a few months before I can really blog about it (No, I didn’t knock anyone up, but my G5 is glowing. hmm)

Tire started to blow out in Port Angeles on Fri. Shredded and thwap thwap. turned around, found a Les Schwab and got new tires. Had them siped, makes em last longer, more traction and run quieter. Sweet.

Ok that is the short list. Yeah, this was condensed. So if you see me online, you know why I am quiet! I’m trying to use more away messages to be more courteous.

If you use Windows, check out Apple’s Tiger. Trust me, Automator looks really cool, as does Spotlight searching. Don’t miss the bandwagon on this folks! Sure longhorn might have some of this stuff, a year or more later, but then again, MS implements it, and we all know how that goes! Break out your registry editors! Not this geek - I’m sticking with the fruit.

…vows to bow out of Presidential race…

heh

Now that Tiger is bringing BeOS like search to the entire OS, it would be cool if this worked for Safari bookmarks. I can never find them and I have 1000s and well folders suck (as Steve said so himself)

But the problem with bookmarks is that there is little meta data in them, just the URL. So I was thinking that Safari could keep a database of site meta data (either pulled from the page or the meta data tags, or both, whatever) so when I bookmark something, that pages (and maybe pages on the same site?) are cached if you will, keyword wise.

Then I can make a smart folder like “Golf and portland” and have all “bookmarks” that relate to those keywords show up!

This is better than just scanning and keeping every page - We have google for that. this only does it for pages I have already actively shown interest in.

As a side note, even if Safari does not do it, a third party app could scan Safari’s bookmarks and do it also , but then the page gets loaded twice, there is lag in scan time, etc, ie I think it would be nice if Apple just did it right

Posted on rpc1.org there is an easter egg in iDVD that allows you to burn iDVD projects to an external burner or a disk image!

• Download The stuffit file named idvdeasteregg.sit
• Unstuff the file into the folder named “HPfurz”
• Copy the files “Hurz” and “Pfurz” into your Home directory (next to Documents, Pictures, etc)
• Open your iDVD project
• Click the burn button to open it, then CONTROL click on the burn button
• From the dialog, choose Disk Image to create a disk image that you can burn with Toast or the Finder, or select an external drive to burn with!

Thanks to Justin for this link!