Archive for February, 2007
It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007It’s Contagious
February 28, 2007Get Well Soon, Drew Neitzel!
February 28, 2007The Spartans lost last night to Michigan, mainly because Drew Neitzel has the flu and was very limited. He was on the bench at one point with 3:30 left to play and the Spartans down by only 5 or 6 points. They’re not going to go very far without him. According to The Bracket Project, most people still have them getting into the tourney at this point, but only around an 8 seed. They certainly can’t afford to go into Wisconsin and get whupped, and they need to be careful about an early exit in the Big Ten tourney affecting their chances as well. After Wisconsin and Ohio State, MSU, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Purdue all have close to the same resume, and the Big Ten is likely to only get 5 teams in this year, so a lot is riding on this last week. MSU will definitely be helped next year by getting NCAA tournament experience for guys like Raymar Morgan.
So like I said, “Get well soon, Drew!”
Wired Up
February 28, 2007On Monday, I received my SunRocket “Gizmo” from UPS. This after emailing customer support at 9am on Friday, receiving a reply at 4pm that they were “backordered” on the gizmos, then having it ship out later that night. After opening the box and reading the “Quick Install” instructions, I was baffled. The colors of the ports and cables they mentioned were not matching up with my gizmo. I went online and found the real instructions, and was able to hook it up fairly quickly. Not exactly inspiring confidence so far. Luckily, the service is up and working fine.
I did run into a few snags along the way though. Back when I had our basement ceiling exposed, I ran a lot of wiring around, and tried to get everything centralized to the utility closet. All the TV cables run back there, and I thought I had all the phone lines run back there too. Turns out I did not, and the kitchen phone line, the one line we use for our cordless phone (i.e. the only one we ever use) was wired to the outside, not to the “home run.” This meant that after I thought I had hooked up the gizmo correctly, whenever I would pick up the phone to dial, it was dialing both the landline and the VOIP line. This got really confusing when I would hear “Your call could not be completed as dialed” at the same time it was ringing.
I finally figured out the problem, but the wiring was too far under the ceiling for me to rewire the correct way. All I could do was cut the kitchen line, and move the cordless phone to a different phone outlet. This is not a huge deal, but it does leave the kitchen phone outlet mounted on the wall looking pretty bare and silly.
After figuring out the wiring, I set up our landline to forward all incoming calls to the new SunRocket line, and disconnected the landline. You may notice that calls coming from us show a different number on the caller ID for a while, but if we end up sticking with SunRocket, I will switch our existing number to them, so that should only be temporary.
At any rate, last night we made several calls (Disney planning and such) and no one seemed to notice anything untoward about the connection. I believe it even passed the wife test, which was “I like to make phone calls that I can hear the other person on the line and I like to keep costs to a minimum.” Check, and check.
Wired Up
February 28, 2007On Monday, I received my SunRocket “Gizmo” from UPS. This after emailing customer support at 9am on Friday, receiving a reply at 4pm that they were “backordered” on the gizmos, then having it ship out later that night. After opening the box and reading the “Quick Install” instructions, I was baffled. The colors of the ports and cables they mentioned were not matching up with my gizmo. I went online and found the real instructions, and was able to hook it up fairly quickly. Not exactly inspiring confidence so far. Luckily, the service is up and working fine.
I did run into a few snags along the way though. Back when I had our basement ceiling exposed, I ran a lot of wiring around, and tried to get everything centralized to the utility closet. All the TV cables run back there, and I thought I had all the phone lines run back there too. Turns out I did not, and the kitchen phone line, the one line we use for our cordless phone (i.e. the only one we ever use) was wired to the outside, not to the “home run.” This meant that after I thought I had hooked up the gizmo correctly, whenever I would pick up the phone to dial, it was dialing both the landline and the VOIP line. This got really confusing when I would hear “Your call could not be completed as dialed” at the same time it was ringing.
I finally figured out the problem, but the wiring was too far under the ceiling for me to rewire the correct way. All I could do was cut the kitchen line, and move the cordless phone to a different phone outlet. This is not a huge deal, but it does leave the kitchen phone outlet mounted on the wall looking pretty bare and silly.
After figuring out the wiring, I set up our landline to forward all incoming calls to the new SunRocket line, and disconnected the landline. You may notice that calls coming from us show a different number on the caller ID for a while, but if we end up sticking with SunRocket, I will switch our existing number to them, so that should only be temporary.
At any rate, last night we made several calls (Disney planning and such) and no one seemed to notice anything untoward about the connection. I believe it even passed the wife test, which was “I like to make phone calls that I can hear the other person on the line and I like to keep costs to a minimum.” Check, and check.
