Are we living in the future yet?

Next ubertechnology plan.

I use goofey/email/online communication a lot. I mean a lot. And I hate mobiles. Don't own one, won't cary one.

However.

bunnikins has a mobile, and uses SMS a lot, and rarely checks her email, and doesn't have a single instant messaging account.

So. This makes it awfully difficult sometimes for us to communicate in any meaningful fashion when we're not face to face. I can look up her mobile number and go find a phone and ring her, and usually leave a message. And she can ring my work, and our phone-answerer (since I have achieved phone Zen at work) will offer to take a message and send me an email. And that's about as good as it gets.

But soon, yes soon, I will have an SMS gateway at home, so she can SMS "me" and have the SMS converted to email/goofey/AIM/IRC/instant-message-protocol-du-jour, and similarly I can message her (via same protocol, or the Web, or any number of ways), and that will be converted to SMS and sent straight to her. And this is, apparently, all incredibly easy.

I say apparently. Phone should arrive in a day or two. Cable should arrive by the weekend. In theory, that's all I need. I will keep y'all posted (because I know you all care). Watch This Space for instructions on How To SMS Jai. Yay.

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