Our new phones arrived yesterday which is kind of cool. I haven't had a landline in about 2 years and the concept is unfamiliar to my new cellular lifestyle. It turns out that instead of a phone for the whole apartment which was what I had assumed, we each get one for our rooms - each with our own phone number. We are also on a central system, so that dialing another residence phone number only requires four digits. The laziness factor amounts to the fact that I will be able to call my brother in his room which is connected to mine.

The phone itself is quite nice - an Aastra 480e which has a nice display and a speakerphone and a data port for connecting a modem if I wanted to send a fax say. The voicemail is also really nice. I'm not sure whether this is a standard voicemail thing for landlines or not, but it lets me set two messages - one for when I am on the phone and one for when I don't answer. That is pretty cool if you ask me.

Mike has managed to score quite well on a couple of cool keywords - leet haxors. Unfortunately, they aren't particularly competitive keywords - at least according to overture which says that just over 1800 people searched for leet alone in July and only 175 searched for haxor, and none together. That said, that is overture and this is Google.

Clearly though, this is something that ought to be captured for posterity - which I'm sure mike has.