MisterQuade (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mrq) wrote,@ 2006-12-29 18:20:00 |
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What is your homepage?
After a long hiatis I post once again.
I have been on holiday over the Agnostica/New Years break, and aside form a couple of nasty (read 10) callouts in the last 2 days, it has been spent watching telly and playing Lego Starwars 2 on the laptop.
I have somewhat questionably decided to swap ISP's over this period too, which has led to about a weeks worth of downtime. Luckily, being on call has allowed me to leech off the work's wireless connection in the meantime, so I haven't been completely offline (I would have enabled dial up but I forgot that my NEW shiny linux motherboard only had a single serial port which was being used by the UPS...doh).
Anyway....I am not on IINet's shiny ADSL2'ness and have a question.
What do you use as your homepage?
I have traditionally used my ISP's homepage/member page as my home, but after moving from Westnet's great members page to IINet's somewhat bland home page, I am looking to break tradition.
I am tempted to simply point my browser to Google and be done with it....fast, small, and useful.
But I want options.....I like opening the browser to see a local TV guide, news headlines, and weather info.
Yes, I could just keep using Westnet's members page, I hear you saying, but that feels a bit...wrong, I dunno. Times are a changin and I feel like a change too :).
I downloaded a free VOIP client to test out the VOIP I am paying for, for no good reason, and that seems to work nicely. I am still trying to figure a use for it mind you, as I don't know anyone internationally, or interstate for that matter. I am also resisting the urge to spend over $300 on a wireless VOIP phone that would save me approximately fuckall on calls since I generally don't make any.....but damn.....an IP enabled 802.11 phone....that is just cool.
Actually it is phone envy all round after having a gander athbb's shiny newness. I think I might give up on my slim hope that Nokia will decide to release an 850MHz HSDPA version of their N95 marvel, and go for the IMate-Jasjam. Being Windows Mobile, it will have more or less the same software support as the Symbian platform I am familiar with, and all I really miss out on is the GPS and media features, which, well, are there for flash and not going to be big features for me after all.
New Years will be a quiet one this year...between on-call and lack of inclination, a night in will be relaxing before heading back to work :). Weather permitting, I will have an excuse to get the telescope out :)
After a long hiatis I post once again.
I have been on holiday over the Agnostica/New Years break, and aside form a couple of nasty (read 10) callouts in the last 2 days, it has been spent watching telly and playing Lego Starwars 2 on the laptop.
I have somewhat questionably decided to swap ISP's over this period too, which has led to about a weeks worth of downtime. Luckily, being on call has allowed me to leech off the work's wireless connection in the meantime, so I haven't been completely offline (I would have enabled dial up but I forgot that my NEW shiny linux motherboard only had a single serial port which was being used by the UPS...doh).
Anyway....I am not on IINet's shiny ADSL2'ness and have a question.
What do you use as your homepage?
I have traditionally used my ISP's homepage/member page as my home, but after moving from Westnet's great members page to IINet's somewhat bland home page, I am looking to break tradition.
I am tempted to simply point my browser to Google and be done with it....fast, small, and useful.
But I want options.....I like opening the browser to see a local TV guide, news headlines, and weather info.
Yes, I could just keep using Westnet's members page, I hear you saying, but that feels a bit...wrong, I dunno. Times are a changin and I feel like a change too :).
I downloaded a free VOIP client to test out the VOIP I am paying for, for no good reason, and that seems to work nicely. I am still trying to figure a use for it mind you, as I don't know anyone internationally, or interstate for that matter. I am also resisting the urge to spend over $300 on a wireless VOIP phone that would save me approximately fuckall on calls since I generally don't make any.....but damn.....an IP enabled 802.11 phone....that is just cool.
Actually it is phone envy all round after having a gander at
hbb's shiny newness. I think I might give up on my slim hope that Nokia will decide to release an 850MHz HSDPA version of their N95 marvel, and go for the IMate-Jasjam. Being Windows Mobile, it will have more or less the same software support as the Symbian platform I am familiar with, and all I really miss out on is the GPS and media features, which, well, are there for flash and not going to be big features for me after all.New Years will be a quiet one this year...between on-call and lack of inclination, a night in will be relaxing before heading back to work :). Weather permitting, I will have an excuse to get the telescope out :)
