IMPORTANT UPDATE: The High and Mighty Oz  Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal loves Magic Jack.

It kills him to admit it, but admit it he does…

To my surprise, it worked pretty much as advertised. It has a few drawbacks, and extra fees for added services, such as vanity phone numbers. But I found magicJack easy to set up and easy to use, and it yielded decent, if not pristine, call quality. I even tested customer support—a source of complaints online—and found it friendly, fast and responsive.

It’s been quite a while ago since I first installed Magic Jack. I use Magic Jack for a couple things: when the other phone line is busy, or when I need to make a long distance call to Bangalore to ask Boompa to help me undisunfigure my .dll or some other silly tech support issue.

The first Magic Jack review got hundreds of comments – running about 50/50 good/bad. I never had a bad experience with Magic Jack.

Here’s a site that describes all the features.

I’ve been through some harrowing times with my computer. I got the Antivirus 2009 trojan virus on my computer and it took me about 36 hours (including all the downloading and restarting) to remove it.

Aside: Use Malwarebytes if you get this virus.

I have installed and uninstalled dozens of applications. My point is that every time I booted the computer, Magic Jack came back and worked like a charm.

St. Todd DeCubbville (my BATV installer) purchased one recently from Radio Shack because of the ease of returning it to the store after the trial period.

He never returned it. He is about to go without a landline entirely.
As soon as he gets Google Voice set up and distributed to everyone, he will depend solely on Magic Jack and Sprint for his phone service.

He’s convinced too.
Magic Jack is still rock solid. And I would tell you differently.

This site offers a second opinion on the Magic Jack and it’s future.

I’ve been on the road a lot this past week. There a lot of trucks on the road.

All together now… durrrrr.

Being behind the wheel, whilst careening down the road at 83 miles per hour,  allows a lot of think time.

I’ve seen long-haul truckers:

• parallel park on the Champs de Elvis in Memphis
• drive three wide in Hurricane Culligan at 83 mph
• flirt with Glinda, eat meat and three, pass gas, all in less than the time it takes me to find my Jon and Kate Wilkes booth
• pick their teeth with a Bowie knife and not draw blood
• with tri-trailers do a reverse 180, release the middle trailer and hook back up to make a dual
• back in between two other trailers at 30 mph and stop within 2 inches of the dock

What’s up with the flashing of lights when they pass each other going 85 mph down the Interstate? Daytime, Nighttime, Anytime.

Flash, flash, flash.

Flash headlights when a trucker pulls into their lane, flash trailer lights after pulling in front of another trucker.

Are long haul truckers stricken with Alzheimer’s when they hit the Interstate Highways so they forget how long their rig is?

Does a long haul trucker’s mirror say “objects in mirror must flash before you turn right?”

Are Interstate truckers so hopped up on bennies that they need visual assistance to get back in line?

Do they think this is NASCAR and to turn right you need a spotter to indicate “clear low?”

They all have cell phones, why don’t they just call each other? They all have GP Esses, can’t they just plot the position of every truck in 1000 yards? Kinda like the voluntary air traffic control over the Hudson River?

What is it with Interstate Truckers?

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Infallible.

Hope Bin Laden logs on soon.

Please stand by…

I’m not celebrating, I’m just okay with the fact that another 999,999,999 computers have Firefox installed and hopefully are using that instead of Internet Explorer.
Bill Gates is a Prick.

You’re probably like me, you have at least two browsers installed, and maybe four or five or none.

And, if you are like me, you get totally honked off at Firefox and switch to another browser just to teach it a lesson.

3.5 was a nightmare for me. Constant crashes. then 3.5.1 came out and ’tis alrighty.

Sometimes I write Die Firefox Die. But it won’t and another version is released and it’s OK for a while.

So Live, Firefox, Live.