When I was in Dubai a couple of weeks ago I found myself curious about VoIP and what options I had while staying there as far as cheap methods to call home went. I ended up using the Windows Live Messenger feature to call land-line phones from my computer via Verizon for what are extremely [...]

The old blog is now reachable only through this link now as I’ve simplified the page at http://gusperez.com.

Finally finished watching King Kong last night. It took us three days of pausing and continuing to get through it. Movies shouldn’t be that long–especially ones that could really fit in maybe thirty minutes. Some scenes seemed to never end and the first hour was pretty much as slow as it gets. Of course, effects [...]

  Okay, so I’m going to switch. It’s just too simple and everything works as it should. It’s PHP instead of Perl (which isn’t a huge difference for me but still a good thing). Everything has gone really smoothly so far and it just seems to be the way to go. That said, switching comes [...]

I’ve used Movable Type for a very long time now and never really tried any alternatives (except for maybe my work blog which runs Telligent’s Community Server and actually had several features I used that MT didn’t). So, long weekend and all, I decided to try out WordPress and see what it had to offer. [...]

I’ve just uploaded the latest version of the long-running UpTime 2000 tool. It’s got only some minor fixes that folks have been asking for over the years (literally, the last release was in the year 2000). Better late than never. I guess I’ve become allergic to the whole C++ world of programming and it was [...]