sylvar

We're selling almost all our videos in preparation for moving.  Please bid on the stuff you'd like to have.  If you're in Tampa, we can skip the shipping costs.

I'm selling a 1GB black iPod on eBay; the auction ends Sunday. As an eBay seller, I try to help buyers understand what their costs will be -- so I'm offering free USPS Priority Mail shipping (to the US), with free insurance.

eBay sellers who pad their shipping costs ($15 for shipping?!) bug me.

With the money from that sale, and if I sell my current 30GB, I'd be within easy striking distance (less than $100) of a new 80GB, Generation 5.5, video iPod. That would be very, very nice. And not just because it's the latest and greatest; I've actually been running out of room on my 30GB, and have been deleting things I listen to less often.

So here's hoping the pay-what-you-bid, no-extra-charges model works out.

My employer was kind enough to ask me to take any parts I wanted from some servers that we're no longer using and don't want to keep around. If you'd like a VXA-1 tape drive, some PC2100 memory, or up to ten 36GB U320 SCSI drives, feel free to check out my eBay auctions. If you'll be at the party in Miami or want to meet me in Tampa, you can ignore the bit about shipping fees.

Skype is still pretty nifty, but it worries me that it's been bought by eBay. They don't seem to care much about evilness in their PayPal division, so why would they care if Skype goes evil?

That brings me to Google Talk, which is embryotic compared to Skype, but is at least run by people who claim the unofficial motto "Don't be evil". I'm now using both, and rooting for Google Talk to develop into a solution for Internet-to-POTS telephony (like SkypeOut).

So if you want to add me, look for sylvar (you may have to add "@" and Gmail's .com domain name to that).