Chucks Blog

I applied for Google Voice a few weeks back, (which by the way, you can do here) and got the invite yesterday morning. Eager to find out its features I quickly logged in, and found myself rather pleased.

After choosing your number and logging in you are presented with this page, which can be used to [...]

Been with VPSLink quite a few months now, and I must say things are going well.
chuck@wine:~$ uptime
20:50:50 up 64 days, 51 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Last reboot I did myself for a software update. And the only other downtime before that was during their datacenter power failure. No biggy though – [...]

If your a student like me you quite often need to make long distance calls across the nation to friends and family for various reasons. The only problem? Cell phone plans are crazy expensive to complete this job.
The solution? Well as long as you have WiFi access, why not just use Skype on your iPod? [...]

Just a heads up for other people who may have this phone or are thinking of getting it — its front buttons (especially the OK button) tend to stop working/act funny after a few months of moderate usage. I’ve contacted Verizon a couple times now and got it replaced under warranty twice, but it continues [...]