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My new PPC (the HTC Touch in case you haven’t read) is now sporting two new features. First a crack on the body thanks to shoddy manufacturing. I need to have it replaced under warranty but don’t really want to downgrade the phone from its current settings. Thank you Verizon for creating such a crappy case for a good phone. The other feature – visual voicemail. With technology being the way it is these days why are we still using a crappy voicemail system? If you have the iPhone then you know what visual voicemail is. It lets you pick the messages you want to hear and skip over the rest without having to hear them. Because frankly, some messages you just don’t care to hear. Well, I don’t have an iPhone but I did find a place that offers visual voicemail for the low cost of FREE!

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There’s a strong wind blowing through the San Fernando Valley tonight. I’m feeling nostalgic tonight as I prepare this website to be something more than it is now. Little known fact – way back in the day (around 1999 – 2000) me and a group of friends got together to write a newsletter titled the Vacuum Diagrams. The newsletter was named after a Stephen Baxter book which inspired me to create something that I hoped would allow those of my friends moving out to college to maintain a semblance of connection to the place they once called home. In many ways, this website serves to be a resurrection of that, a place to post news, musings, stupid little tidbits of information that randomly pop into my mind, and the occasional informative article.

Ahh, those were the days. Staying up late trying to come up with something to say. Getting on Michelle and Helen’s ass to write me an article before I sent out the newsletter bi-weekly. It had a good run, 85 issues 50+ subscribers – most of which weren’t even people I knew. It was sad to see it go. What started out as a way to ship off news to far flung friends became something more. A way for 3 friends (4 if you weren’t in the joke) to say something about their lives, their hopes, and their ambitions. It holds a fond place in my heart.

So, to honour the memory of VD I’ve decided to revive a section of the newsletter here on my blog. The section is called “In The Corner”. It’s basically a collection of random musings that I think of and post. There will be no explanation and if it makes sense even better. It’s just about saying something that mostly for me, but you get to read it too. Eight years later and at least Xanthros lives on, if not in newsletter form, at least on this blog. I hope you decide I’m worth reading and I hope while you’re here you find something worthwhile.

BTW: If you are interested in receiving the entire set of the Vacuum Diagrams contact me. I’ll hook it up.

I’ve been using CrossLoop lately as a way to fix people’s computers. It gives me a few side jobs, but it’s also perhaps a good way to get more of a footing into freelancing work. I’d love to use collaboration tools, but some people suck at using them.. and I haven’t had much experience with them.. so i need to brush up..

I have this strange feeling of abandonment.. don’t get me wrong.. i’ve abandoned a few people in my time.. but at the same time.. it’s weird to have it happen to me.. but in any case… I’ve also found quite a few xanthros and nulledge’s out there.. curse them all for taking my good name.. I’ve had my nick (xanthros) since 1998… in the early days of the internet.. nulledge.. that was born a few years later.. but still pretty early. Why did i not buy nulledge.com?.. well.. because at the time i thought .net would be cooler.. now.. i regret that decision.. but what is done.. is done.