April 2022 Posts

I am getting this request more and more often - to the tune of multiple emails a week at this point. It usually starts friendly enough - friendly enough to that I know the sender isn’t a robot, they’ve very clearly looked at some of my pages. But then the pitch starts: “I’d like to contribute to your website an article on X” or “I’d be delighted to contribute to your website on this topic.” Usually promising to do so for free.

Recently, when my company was moving offices, I had the opportunity to snag a dozen or so used Polycom telephones. Had this idea that I wanted to try and it turned out that it worked pretty well. And that idea was this: what if I could use them to create an intercom system in the house?