Mr Papa’s World

I seem to be taking more and more plunges technology speaking. Or is that web based speaking? With my new found, reliable, high speed internet service, I am finding more and more things I can do on the net.

You can now get a hold of me on Skype. I have long been a user of Teamspeak for voice chat, but I have to admit, this Skype works pretty darn well. And it has video. Guess I may have to get a web cam soon. You can even call real phones from Skype though that feature costs money and I haven’t felt the urge to try it.

Skype has proven useful for chatting with friends online and especially for coordinating some activities with the Simple:Press Forum development team that I am a member of.

Give Skype a try and look me up. My Skype username … READ MORE

Qwest finally decided to turn on DSL out here in my neck of the woods. They had run fiber out for a central office several years ago but had resisted actually activating any kind of service. I guess they think Sonoita is backwoods and wouldn’t support turning on the service.

Anyways, I have used a wireless provider out here for the last year with mixed results. When it works, it works great. When it doesn’t, its very frustrating. The last couple of months haven’t been very good. I think the wireless is getting interference from somewhere. It just cuts out at different times and becomes very latent. The provider has been very good about talking with me about the problem and working to solve it, but unfortunately has not been able to fix it.

I decided to give the Qwest system a run. … READ MORE