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I think every web designer should have a great setup of monitors. So, even though
I’m often ribbed about my bank of three monitors in my office. Now I have a new setup in mind. Wow. This setup rocks

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I just got this neat Internet Phone Wizardfrom Actiontec. It’s a little box (about the size of a mini-hub) that you plug into your PC with USB. It then has a phone plug that you stick your phone into.

It makes using SKYPE the same as your regular phone. I can use my much loved Plantronics headset for all calls rather than having yet another pc. of hardware laying about my messed up desk.

So far, it is working great. I have it hooked to line “2″ of my phone system. This way, I can choose local or long-distance calls easily. The Skype voice quality is very good but it is a few db quieter than the same call on an analog phone. Some folks said I was quiet. I’ve boosted my mic some and that helped.

Another neat thing is now I can conference in lots of folks AND record the calls using my “Pamela” Skype tool. So far it’s working great. Hopefully I can both improve service and save a little mula as I work.

The Webtrends Enterprise test with Ecometry is going pretty well. I have accurate page names showing in flow funnels and the data all looks about right. The next phase is to get it to feed the subtotal data (ecommerce) into the tags the way WT demands. Kevin Pahl has been very helpful in arranging me to talk to developers within the organization to get things done. He also managed to turn up the volume of data refreshes so I could test my work more quickly. Kudos.