Robert Accettura's
Fun With Wordage

Why does history have to repeat itself? It took years to get Number Portability for cell phones. Why isn’t there an effort yet to do the same for VoIP? There’s some discussion here on the topic. Do we really need to get to the point of an epidemic with people locked [...]

If your a nerd like me, you should be reading geek comics. My two favorites are:
The Joy of Tech
PC Weenies
both well done, current, and quite funny.

I’m curious what the tech community thinks about extending Daylight Savings Time. Daylight Savings has long been a pain in any developers side as it varies depending on timezone (and sometimes country). It’s the reason why many webApps stick to GMT or UTC, rather than allow users to customize to their own timezone. [...]

I’ve been a big fan of Skype for some time now. I’ve raved about it ever since I tried it for the first time. It’s simple, fast, reliable, low bandwidth, and the audio quality is great.
Glazou today recommend SIPphone (in particular PhoneGaim). He mentioned this a while back about SIP. [...]

Thought it would be fun to spend a few minutes looking at what technology I’ve ‘experienced’ over my years. Considering I’m a college student, I’ve had a chance to play with some old toys:
First Computers
Well, my first computer to the surprise of most was a the IBM 5150. Yes, shocking isn’t it? [...]

I asked about getting SMIME support. Here’s the reply I got:
Hello,
Thank you for your suggestion regarding SMIME support — we are forwarding it to the appropriate team for review. We certainly appreciate hearing from Gmail users and encourage you to continue to let us know how we can improve the Gmail experience.
You might be [...]

I’ve got a Gmail invite (or two) to give away!
Well, the first person (or two if I do end up with a second to give away) who can solve the following question, will get a Gmail Account.
I’ve asked this question to a few people before, if your one of those (I do know who you [...]

Well, actually it’s well past time. Instant Messaging has all the earmarks to be the communications of the future, and it royally stinks.
Problems today:

Networks don’t communicate together, hence locking users in (MSN, AIM, Yahoo!)
Phones don’t Text Message (same as IM essentially) across networks. Barely from net to phone.
Each has proprietary ‘extras’ [...]

Well I wrote this a little while ago for a term paper, and since the term is now over, I thought I would just publish it for everyones enjoyment. Not much else to say, but it’s pretty shocking how bad computers can be for the environment. I’m not sure many realize just how [...]

There has been a ton of buzz lately about Gmail, Google’s free email service. 1000 megabytes of free storage, Google Search Technology, and of course all sorts of Google usability improvements. I’m sure Google has stuff still in the labs to enhance it at some point in the future as well, I could [...]