During the last week I purchased a VoIP phone from eBay. The phone works well even if I needed to do some searching on the internet to find a copy of the manual. And even then the manual was not particularly useful. But the phone is quite good, and it has good quality audio, as well as an extensive address book. A but of GSM interference does get into it but that is not a major problem really. The display on the phone has characters about 1cm high so they are actually legible across the desk. It also displays the date and time having synchronised to a time server which in itself is a cool feature. Yesterday though the LOGIN green LED was flashing all the time. From what I can work out the VoIP provider was uncontactable so the light came on to warn me. Cool.

The headline from a News.Com.Au says it all… ‘Slippery when wet for Bon Jovi Jet‘ which tells the story about how a 707 owned by the group Bon Jovi skidded off the runway in Canada in a heavy rainfall.

I just saw a small presentation on the Net by Applied materials which creates the equipment used by most microchip manufacturer. I learned a few details which I had no idea about in this presentation – and I had done some of the things mentioned in Uni. Quite enlightening. Not for everyone though…