Category Archives: Personal

My Life with Asterisk — Part 4

With the challenges of Part 3 behind me, I was optimistic of the possibility of resolving the lingering issues with my phone system. One of the first pieces that I dabbled with was setting up paging and conference calls. When … Continue reading

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My Life with Asterisk — Part 3

At the end of Part 2, I finally have AsteriskNOW installed on my phone system hardware. Now, we have to get to the real work of configuring the system to actually do useful (and not so useful) work. My first … Continue reading

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My Life with Asterisk — Part 2

When we left off, I had finally decided to use AsteriskNOW and replace my hand-crafted dialplan with something more flexible and easier to modify. Before I could do anything else, I had to get the distribution installed. What follows was … Continue reading

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My Life with Asterisk — Part 1

So, I started using Asterisk a few years ago. I started working for a small IT company; my prime focus was on developing a sellable SMB phone system product. Unfortunately, the firm folded just as we were ready to launch. … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Services

Yesterday afternoon, my girlfriend discovered a particularly large volume of voicemails on her phone, after having cleaned out her mail box just 36 hours prior.  She listened to several blank voicemails, as well as one from someone who wanted us … Continue reading

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Check Out My High Score…

It’s been a while since the event, but I thought I would recommend an event for anyone who enjoys pop culture, classical music, or video games.  Video Games Live came to Columbus back in April.  While I won’t go into … Continue reading

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Starting Another New Job

Well, the absence from this blog has not been without good cause. For the last few months at MCPR, we saw quite a bit interesting happenings, resulting in our being locked out. While this is normally a bad thing, it … Continue reading

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Starting a Podcast/Netcast

I have been wanting to start a podcast for a very long time, inspired by what Leo Laporte does with TWiT and with what my parents did educating people. So, I spent some time thinking about a focus for the … Continue reading

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Lingering Projects

Over the course of the last few months, I have come across a few projects that I have not taken the opportunity to work on, and I really should. The following projects are on my short list of things to … Continue reading

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Lengthy Absence

My, how the days and months fly by…  Can it really be six months since I wrote my last entry to this blog? There has been quite a bit of life to have happened in the time I have been … Continue reading

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