If you haven’t heard of Ooma, you will soon. I discovered it because I
was sick and tired of paying ATT&T for a landline we rarely ever
used that cost us over $40 a month with no extras. We
didn’t even have call waiting, which was nice for us, but the busy
signal always freaked our friends out. At least they knew we were home
even if they couldn’t reach us.
One day last fall I came across a message on one of my geek boards
about a box that uses your current phone number and phones over the
Internet. More research showed that everyone was talking about Ooma, a
system that seemed to be as popular as Uma Thurman among the nerd
community. I was a bit skeptical until I saw over 75 positive reviews
on Amazon. It seemed this system was exactly what I was looking for.
Unlike Vonage a similar service that has a monthly fee, once you
purchase the Ooma system (about $200), you never have to pay another
phone bill again. That’s right I said NEVER. Plus, getting to keep our
existing home phone number (for a small fee) was essential. We’ve had
it for 12 years and it’s the one number my wife can actually remember.
High Tech, Low Tech, and On-line Afflictions
Technology
You're Never Too Old To Rock
As much as I hate to admit it, my husband Dave was right. It hasn’t happened often in our over ten years together – married seven with nary an itch – but it has been occurring more frequently, much to my dismay.
However, I guess even he has to be right some of the time and in the instance of his “insane” (my words) purchase of the video game ROCK BAND last November (2007) I would actually say he was a genius. If you haven’t heard of it you must not have teenagers or been living under a rock. We, like all of our friends’ kids, are completely addicted. In
fact, the upcoming release of ROCK BAND 2
What’s crazy about our behavior is we are not video game people. Actually, we both were in the arcade heyday of the 80s, but now most of the games have too many buttons to push and too much violence to lure me into wasting my time. Though Dave’s the King of Technology, except for the Wii, he’s rarely tempted into the gaming world. That fateful day in November changed everything. He suckered me into going to the Best Buy on a Saturday by promising to let me purchase a new game for our Wii console. I don’t know if he was already planning on buying Rock Band, but once he saw they had a few kits in stock, he just had to have one. It was rumored to be the “must have game” of the holiday season and Dave is never one to be behind the technology curve.
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