October 2022 (1/3) | Listening to Skype Voicemail .dat files
April 2024 (2/3) | Still trying to listen to Skype Voicemails…
TL;DR, Scott Nickell discovered the final piece of the puzzle and gave me a heads up on it. See repository with updated README.md. I’ve also made an easy way to upload files and have them converted to MP3s Skype Voicemail Listener.
The end of the trilogy has just began…
Read MoreWhile cleaning things I happen to cross a pile of papers and sticky notes containing random phrases and interesting comments from coworkers at a previous job I used to work. I felt the need to get these digitized and memorialized as soon as the wave of nostalgia hit.
As an initial prerequisite to reading/seeing this data: I was called “Sparky”, a name provided to me by David Molik shortly after I was employed. The reasoning was simple: There’s just too many “Matts” in an office building of 300 professionals to verbally discern me from the rest, so a moniker was appropriate. It stuck for a decade, and was much better than my previous moniker “Crash.”
Read MoreDuring COVID I worked remotely as a Software Engineer for Synacor. Their work-from-home mandate started March 13, 2020 and lasted for ~715 days. After 6 months upper management decided to create a gem of comradery to remind us that, in times of turmoil and confusion, we have always been a team.
I finally got around to physically deleting the hard binding and getting the 8″x11″ yearbook completely digitized and OCR’d.
Read MoreRecently I was asked “What did I do that I couldn’t go to Canada”, and before I was able to dialogue the tale I immediately heard “wasn’t it that thing with the felonies?”
The quick answer was “no”, but then I was asked to tell the story about “the felonies.” I still have the email that caused it all…
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