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So I’ve been pissing all over 2008 lately, but today I heard about Jeff Pulver (the VoIP visionary), resigning from his company. This is pretty big news in the VoIP arena, especially since Jeff is so likable. He didn’t mention why he left, but he did mention this:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

This is extremely ironic, just because those are honestly the exact words that come to mind whenever I’m faced with a decision. So 2008, you may be a bitch-demon, but I will still be victorious.

I, like most people I hope, have obviously done some things here and there that I regret doing, but I have absolutely done nothing so far that I regret not doing. I came close though in the last couple weeks, but strangely enough, failure is surprisingly satisfying.

I bought a new cell phone recently, it’s slightly larger than my last one, but it’s about a hundred times more feature packed. So far I’ve set up VoIP on it so I can make phone calls via the data network (thus not use any minutes, even though I literally have ~4000 rollover just sitting there) and even be able to set up multiple incoming phone numbers if needed… from anywhere in the world. Even got Skype on this thing, supposedly the voice portion works the same, still need to try that out.

Messed around with setting my outgoing caller-id via the same data route so that it sends out my landline number, just in case I want somebody to think I’m at home or don’t want them to have my cell number. Sneaky and most likely never going to be used, but I like having the geek ability to do it.

I’ll probably be taking a lot more pictures and videos, just because this thing has a 5 megapixel camera, much better than my last 2 megapixel camera (for which I still need to upload many pics to the photos section when I get unlazy). The video recording is definitely better this time around. Tossing up videos here is simple, but I’m trying to setup Qik so that all three of you can see LIVE video from my cell phone (a 5 second delay, but whatever). Now that would be amazing.

“What’re you up to right now TB?”
“Check out my blog, I’ll show you a live video feed of what I’m up to biotch!”

I almost went the Twitter route (Twitter is a Facebook-status only type website), but decided against it. Why? Well, I only have a couple friends that would actually be geeked-up enough to check Twitter to see what I’m up to (yeah, I know, I need geekier friends, alas I do try), plus Facebook updating is pretty easy and most people I know are already on there, so Twitter just seemed redundant.

One more thing, I want to get lost soon walking around the streets of Boston, I still haven’t tested out the handheld GPS functionality of this puppy, hopefully it won’t make me take right turns into walls and hookers. Well, at least not walls.