I have not been on vacation much in the past few years. In fact, I came across a spreadsheet ("Week with the Simpsons.xls") while cleaning up some files recently that was dated 7/30/99. Now I think we had another
vacation the following year, but basically that means that this week is
the first in 4 years. Yeah!


So I think I will do a little blogging renewal with the free time. I think we'll be saying goodbye to Google's Adsense. Maybe  it works better with static pages, but between the ridiculous change to
Gooooooooogle in the header and the lack of context in the ads -- which leads to a click-through rate that is non-existent -- what's the point? I can use the screen space for something else.


Jeff Pulver has invited me to play with the latest beta of the Pulver Communicator, which is a simple idea that unifies IM (it will do AOL, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo) with Free World Dial-up VoiP. The client is far cleaner than the XTen Xlite soft-phone for FWD; it's a regular Windows app rather than a
graphic with poor useability hiding a bunch of complexity. The client is only available in Beta by invite and only for WinXP to this point. I'll let you know how that works out. Along those lines I'm thinking of posting my FWD and Windows IM ID's on-line. I notice that Alex Saunders has a "Skype Me" button, but that's just one too many clients for me. Still I'm not willing to go as far as Scoble, who  posted his cell number. I would be afraid of getting SMS spam if I did that. Here's a secret that you can try soon though; dial my business line and it will follow me to my cell phone during normal business hours. If
I cannot answer, I'll get your voice mail by email and notification by SMS.