2004-03-23»
strange local loops»So I've been considering getting a Vonage VoIP phone for home. They seem like a pretty good deal for $16.00 a month, and now I've found instructions for using your Vonage number via a softphone on the laptop when I'm not at home, the deal seems even better (I always felt I'd look a little stupid talking on a normal-sized wired phone at conferences. Sort of like bringing out one of those old candlestick models and yelling "OPERATOR!?" into it in a restaurant.)
The issue most mitigating against going Vonage, though, is that I get my connectivty via DSL - which means I'd have to keep my old phone anyway. It feels a bit like I'm being held in some awful Catch 22 by the phone company here.
So I was suggesting to Quinn that I get my revenge by getting a mobile phone with an all-you-can-eat data plan, getting a pocketPC softphone, and then just talking over that. Admittedly, it's the sort of revenge that involves going to a lot of effort and actually paying your enemy rather more money in order to get some sort of artificial symmetry in how much you're screwing each other.
But isn't that what revenge is all about?