Upgrading Tivo with Vonage

ariedana ran into a wee snag upgrading her Tivo since she has Vonage. However, we finally got it to work by using some vonage mailing lists.

Here's the dialing configuration that worked:
Dial Prefix: 12122773895
Call waiting Prefix: *99,,#19,,
phone available: off
dial tone detect: off

Bada bing, bada bang.

However, Vonage does get a tad buggy, and you have to retry your calls a few times. However, it gets the job done.(eventually)

A wee rant about death

Steve Irwin has passed away recently, and my friends list was loaded with posts about his death.

As if we wouldn't find out through normal news channels.

Here's the thing: while loss to us was sad, for he was entertaining, he died doing what he loves to do. He molests wild sea creatures for a living. I don't feel bad for his death--this risk was something he willingly faced.

Now, I didn't see my friendslist spend some time mourning the loss of a group of tourists, who were merely trying to see some Roman ruins in Jordan, and were shot instead by a religious extremist. Six people shot in something not normally involving inherent risk. The risks relative to wrangling a saucy sea creature are at least greater than visiting a popular tourist spot.

Irwin's death was a good death. The tourists, not so good.

I'm home!

...almost. I'm waiting for my baggage at the airport. That Sacramento has free wifi is teh awesome.

I think I got a touch of the con crud. Something crawled up my nose and died.

Okay, killing time while waiting for the luggage carousel has been successful. Time to go retrieve luggage.

Tonight is the season premiere of House. I was so pleased to get ariedana's Tivo working properly before I left. I learned some new stuff with Vonage.

I hope everyone's day is going well.

I'm going to go home and rest!

Ooooh. Shiny!

adgy brings us news of BSG Webisodes that will air here Tuesdays and Thursdays until October 6th.

Good stuff.

Lost, Season 2

I am finishing viewing the second disc of Season 2 of Lost.

Anna Lucia is a pip. I like to refer to episode 3 (Orientation) as "Married with Locke", since Katie Sagal turns up an appearance. That's good fun.

I'm glad, once again, that I didn't watch the season as it unfurled, otherwise, I would have gone mad. Utterly mad!

In addition to purchasing Lost at Best Buy, I made an impulse purchase because I remember loving these movies as a child:



It came with its sequel, Return to Witch Mountain. Nostalgia, ho!

In other news, I am battling some demon crud. Something going on in the sinuses. It started this morning. Feh.

My little predators are currently festooned about my sofa, looking awfully cute as I pet them. taogrl took excellent care of them.

It's 8:45pm. Of course, it feels like near midnight to me. I've been up since 2AM PST. I shall sleep like a log tonight, kids.