Climate changes... and the phone feature I've been waiting for!

Saw a couple of stories related to climate change today:

• Antarctic Glaciers' Sloughing Has Scientists at a Loss
• Winter Has Been World's Warmest on Record

(And interestingly, CNN is also reporting that they've discovered huge ice deposits on Mars... if they melted, they'd cover the planet to a depth of 36 feet!)

And I read an article yesterday about a new phone service from GrandCentral.com. Basically, they give you a new number which rings all of your existing numbers, but completely under your control. I.e. you can choose which phone is rung by co-workers depending on the time of day, record different outgoing voicemail messages for different callers or groups of people, etc. And they have a feature that I have been wanting for years:

Anytime during a call, you can press the * key to make all of your phones ring again, so that you can pick up on a different phone in midconversation, unbeknownst to the person on the other end. For example, if you’re heading out the door, you can switch a landline call to your cellphone — or as you arrive home, a cell call to a landline, in order to save airtime minutes.

Right now it's in beta and free (and their website says that they will always offer a basic set of services for free once their test period is over). I'm giving it a try... stay tuned!