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+Those of you who follow such things may have noticed that I became
+<a href="http://www.spi-inc.org">SPI</a> 
+<a href="http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-announce/2006/000136.html">
+President today</a>.
+
+The cool part, though, is how I managed to participate in the special board
+meeting to select officers today.
+
+The meeting fell in the middle of the drive from our house up into the 
+mountains to the 
+<a href="http://www.rockyridge.org/">Rocky Ridge Music Center</a>
+near 
+<a href="http://www.estes-park.com/">Estes Park, Colorado,</a>
+where my daughter is attending a 
+<a href="http://www.rockyridge.org/programs/jss.htm">music camp</a>.  About 
+15 minutes before the meeting was supposed to start,
+we drove out of the edge of GSM phone coverage just beyond the town of 
+<a href="http://www.lyons-colorado.com/">Lyons</a>... I turned the car 
+around and drove back into town and parked adjacent to the
+surprisingly interesting Sandstone Park, which is part of a 
+<a href="http://www.sculpturetrail.com/">sculpture trail</a>
+in the middle of town.  My wife and kids wandered around
+the park while I fired up my new 
+<a href="http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF25a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f34-1847110.html">HP nc2400 notebook</a>
+and established a GPRS connection through my aging 
+<a href="http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=us&lc=en&ver=4000&template=ps1_1_2_3&zone=ps&lm=ps1&pid=9757">Ericsson T39</a> 
+phone using 
+<a href="http://gprsec.linuxforum.hu/">gprsec</a>, which 
+sadly is not yet 
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325389">
+packaged for Debian</a>.
+
+Two minor hacks due to my choice of phone.  I needed the flag_time=0 option 
+on the ppp_async module command line to work 
+around a bug in the T39 as per the 
+<a href="http://turtiainen.dna.fi/GPRS-HOWTO">GPRS-HOWTO</a>, 
+and noauth in the ppp config emitted by gprsec.
+
+Participating in the meeting was painless, other than delaying our lunch for
+a half hour or so...  It's really nice when things work the way they're 
+supposed to.
+
+[[!tag tags/spi]]