Summit to Surf 2007

My buddy Michael and I rode in the Summit to Surf bike ride on Saturday. The ride was absolutely remarkable. The American Diabetes Association did an amazing job organizing the ride, especially when it came time to supporting the riders. There are several distances you can choose from when you do Summit to Surf. When…

Tech stock news: one up and one down

Wow what a couple of days for two particular tech stocks that I follow. Amazon.com, the great online retailer, reported that their net profit is up 250% when compared to the same quarter last year. WOW! I’m a firm believer in Amazon’s business model and I use their services as often as possible. Check ’em…

Sunrocket to Techcraver: KTHXBAI

If you want to know more about what KTHXBAI means, it’s “Okay thanks bye”. You should really check out lolcats more 🙂 Anyways here’s the letter I got from SR, Dear Customers, After significant effort by the Company to avoid this result, SunRocket is in the process of closing its operations and therefore will no…

I’m in the Wall Street Journal!

My phone rang yesterday and on the other end was a reporter named Samar Srivastava from the Wall Street Journal. Apparently he saw my post about the demise of Sunrocket and wanted to get a customer’s point of view on the debacle. I spoke with him for about 15 minutes. When we were wrapping up…

Sunrocket’s demise affects me

So Sunrocket is going down in flames. The dslreports forums and GigaOM are reporting that the company is shutting it’s doors. Great, just fricking great! This is really bad for two reasons. First and foremost, I have my number with them and I’m actively trying to port it away from Sunrocket to a new VoIP…

Playing with CallWave’s Vtxt service

A while back I got an email from a representative from Callwave, inviting me to use their new service. The basic idea behind their voicemail service, called vtxt, involves using voice recognition on your voicemail in order to send you a text message with a summary of the audio message. Here’s how it’s supposed to…