Don’t call me DOM

I just got a brand new PDA-phone last Monday, a Tréo 650 running PalmOS.

I have been reluctant to cell phones for a long while, finding them rather invasive: when you own a cell phone, people expect to be able to reach you on it pretty much all the time and everywhere. At some point, the trade off between this cost and the advantage of being able to call some people all the time and everywhere tipped the balance, and I finally decided to get a cell phone for my personal usage.

As DanC mentioned, we’ve been playing with configuring Firefox in Gnome to use tel: URIs with our Vonage service; in short, this means you can click on a link à la tel:+1.555.123.4567 and get your Vonage phone calls the said the number. In practice, your phone starts ringing, and once you pick it up, it dials the said number.

Most of the actual work is done by Click 2 Call which offers a Web interface to your Vonage line. But getting integrated nicely in your browsing/desktop experience is fun.

So, how do you get a new URI scheme to be handled by Firefox or Gnome?

After the video card in my desktop computer fried last week for some reasons unknown to me, I moved to use my laptop as the basis of my daily work environment for a few days. And now that my desktop is back in service, I’m thinking to move to a laptop-only mode. But this move is pending some hardware complements (e.g. a port replicator), and I decided that I should start using my laptop system right now rather than later; I’d rather not plug all my existing devices in the laptop since I would have to unplug them too frequently, so I’ve decided to transform at least temporarily my desktop in a simple X Terminal.