Tech Jawa > 2008 > December

Well, iPhones, WalMart, more and more people buying, and activating, causing a flood, again.

You’d think Apple would get it right, and at least be able to handle WALMART SELLING THEIR PRODUCT.

Christ, I’m honestly awaiting an important phone call or two today as well. I need to get ahold of my Mom, and I refuse to pay for a Skype call, so I went on a hunt, and I found iCall.com, and they have a new beta service that allows you to make free-three-minute calls to anywhere in the USA or Canda, totally free. I was skeptical at first, and was expecting to hear an add inserted into my phone call, or something of the sort, but no, I dialed, it connected, and we had a great conversation.

Apparently you can download their desktop software and make longer calls, still for free, but this is good enough in a time of need for me. It worked great. If you’re interested be sure to check out iCall’s website for further details.

In the meantime, if you’re affected by this outage, feel free to use this web-based dialer here to make some of those calls you need to make.

Well, I took my CCDA exam (640-863) on December 23rd, and I ended up scoring an 80%. While needing an 82.5% to obtain the actual certification, I missed it by literally a question or, maybe a question and a half. While very discouraging at the time, I do feel good about myself now, having to take a certification exam on a subject I’m not schooled in, and never had any official trianing in, to still score an 80% is fairly good in my book.

The CCDA will not defeat me, I’ll be getting some money together and going to take it again after I study a bit more.

Now that I’ve got my feel for how the Cisco exams work, I feel much more confident about things, and plan to pass this one the next time. I should be taking my CCDA again and then my CCNA shortly after.

In other news, things have been going pretty well, the apartment is coming along nicely, getting a new dishwashter installed today. Christmas was a blast, I’ll have to post an update about that in the coming days. Flickr update expected soon as well.