Heard strange noise from my car this morning, didn't realize what was wrong until I got on the freeway, and another drive kept horning/pointing at me. Pulled over, walked around the car, and the rear right tire was flat. Tried to go home with it, bailed out midway because the noise from the wheel really worried me. Since this was my first flat tire, I panicked a little, the fact that I didn't know how to replace a tire made it worse. The up side is I wasn't too far away from home, so I called up my brother and we switched cars. Arrived at work about an hour late.

After work, went out with a couple co-worker to 21st Amendment to ehh, celebrate the fact that I won't be bothering them during work anymore. Starting tomorrow I will be working from the Mountain View office. I didn't drink anything alcoholic since I don't want to risk getting a DUI. Stayed there for about an hour, went back to office, packed my computer, drove home. Got home around 9ish.

Enough said

So Skype now offers free calls to North America (apparently only if you are calling from North America). Here are couple links:

Skype

Slashdot

CNet

Except apparently it doesn't work for lots of IP address, looks like they have problems in geolocating the IP addresses. Many people with 70.* to 72.* can't currently use the free SkypeOut service, and I am part of that many people unfortunately.

Tried to use ssh port forwarding, but Skype uses P2P and random port to connect out, so that's not working either.

Great for the company's PR, I am sure.

(Update: tsocks is here to rescue. Redirected Skype to ssh -D to Berkeley campus works fine)

(Update 2: Which apparently means people can call anywhere from the world to North America provided that they can connect to a proxy server here, will Skype block this?)

Enough to go around the world, right?

Hmm, I read this yesterday and today I saw a couple people wearing blue T-shirts at Fry's. Coincident?