You know you are a geek when your wife bought an Wireless PS2 controller for your thirtieth birthday. But toys are just toys..stuff you buy for the thrill of owning a cool gadget, play for a while and then move on to the next. But hey, with a cool controller like this, maybe I can make some time to play my PS2 again. :-)

It is 2am in the morning. My jetlag finally hit me … I got knockout at 2pm and slept all the way until now. *sigh* Now I am wide awake and what should I do? :P

Let see, I could play with my new iPod ;-) I went to the Apple store today with Andrew and he convince me to buy one. (I think it is to reduce his guilt that he is buying one himself :P) I decided to go with it because iPod just come out with a new version. But I prefer the old one, which is cooler with its lit-up button and zero movable-part. And I better buy it before they ran out of stock :-)

I love how well iPod integrates with my powerbook! Just plugin and it just works. Beautiful and this is how software should be!

I got AT&T Callvantage working now. Despite saying it is not able to registered my TA, apparently it works anyway (strange). I made some test call, including one to the AT&T service desk (a toll free number :-) and the sound quality is incredible clear! Woosh! I am impressed! :-)

Anyway, my US number is (650) 384-4515 so drop me a line if you like hear how it sound :-)

Phew! Just finish setting up my AT&T Callvantage, the new VoIP Voice Service. Actually I got the stuff on Monday but was too busy to do any setup until today. It isn’t difficult but I also took the opportunity to phase out my TV-PVR-DVD-Video-Stereo-Desktop Vaio I got from Japan 2 years ago. I also threw out a box of wires which I kept just-in-case-i-need-it (which of cos is never). I mean, how many power cables does one need as spare? I threw away 15 :P

Anyway, back to the Callvantage. It is IP Telephony service offered by AT&T and they are doing beta testing in some part of Asia. AT&T is offering it free-of-charge to beta testers in return for feedbacks :-)

They allow me to choose any phone number from any city in US (I choosen Menlo Park, CA) and they will route the calls over the Internet to my home!¹. Callvantage also comes with lots of interesting value-added services DND, Locate Me, Personal Conferencing! Really cool stuff!

Couldn’t wait to try this baby. So after putting them into my rack, sort out the wires, turn on the devices and making sure my broadband still works, oops, I left my registration info in office :-( Oh well…Definately by tomorrow cos I am leaving for IETF on Sat. It would come handy because this means I can call home from San Diego. :-)

¹ Actually I already have a Washington number from Kallfree but thats another story.