Best quote I’ve read in recent weeks:
Automatic e-mail footers are not just annoying. They are legally useless.
From the folks at The Economist, comes a great little article about those amazingly annoying email footers. You know the ones, right? This email is intended for the sole use of yatta, yatta, yatta. Continue reading
Dear Children of America, Continue reading
Sometimes, you just get sick of looking at the same thing over and over again. Of course, the one exception to this is our wives. Of course. See honey?
Anyway, as we were saying… every now and then you just need to go ahead and make a change. After all, it was the greatest musical act of all time that told us:
When it’s time to change, then its time to change
Don’t fight the tide, come along for the ride, don’t you see
When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange
Yes, that group was The Brady Bunch. Peter, Greg, Marsha, Bobby, Cindy, and Jan were right. When it’s time to change you’ve got to rearrange.
Today, we rearranged our site. Nothing crazy. In fact the only really crazy aspect is the homage to Mr. Ben Affleck. If Ben Franklin is the patron saint of VoIP Tech Chat (and he is) then Mr. Ben Affleck is, well he’s just the baddest man in the whole town.
Thanks for reading.
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Atlas heard about this venture and shrugged...(cause he had the whooooole world....)
I was introduced to a fun little “tool” today: Find the shortest route between two Wikipedia articles.
The first thing I tried was an analysis of the path from Death to VoIP, and I discovered Continue reading
Sometimes, VoIP tech chat is more about tech, and less about VoIP.
As a follow up to our podcast last week, Fred left the teaser of a discussion of airport security this week. In (unexpected) preparation for this discussion, I took a “short” trip from my home in Chattanooga, TN to Salt Lake city, UT. The flight out was uneventful, Chattanooga is a small, 5-gate airport with a fairly simple metal detector security checkpoint.
On the trip back, things got interesting. Continue reading
Edward Vielmetti, who you may remember from the Asterisk/Parking piece, writes great blog posts. Whether on his personal site, AnnArbor.com, or numerous other blogs, Ed’s posts certainly capture my attention.
Recently, Ed started writing a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Friday series, detailing examples and stories from the world of Public Information. The article mostly deals with the Michigan FOIA, however parallels can be drawn for other states (such as Florida’s Sunshine Laws) and the Federal government.
It’s a great read. This week, Ed discusses how to write a FOIA request. Check out the post at http://www.annarbor.com/news/government/foia-friday-how-to-write/.
Do you know what album features the first professional recording of Jon Bon Jovi? (hint: yes, this is “tech” related) Continue reading
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced today a “series of changes” in response to the changing economic climate. You have to love their NASDAQ ticker name, don’t you?
In order to “accelerate the introduction of compelling open source innovations,” Sun will be restructuring the company into new business groups:
The restructuring aims to remove costs by 700 – 800 million dollars each year. Of course, there is also a human price tag — a reduction of 15 – 18% of the workforce (about 5000 – 6000 employees).
Sun provides popular open source software and promotes itself as a leader in the open source community. Popular Free, OpenSource Sun products include:
If for no other reason to say you at least voice your opinion, there is a limited opportunity to share your opinions with the FCC. Currently, the FCC seeks additional comment on telecom reforms; specifically the Universal Service Fund (USF) and intercarrier compensation.
Although the FCC does not have a track record of following public opinion, it never hurts to try. Listening to one person’s voice versus a heavy lobbyist? Chances are very, very, very small that our Mr. Smith’s opinion will prevail — but then again, without voicing at all, the chance is zero.
Proposals range from taxing a flat fee of $1.00/month per telephone number to a cap of fees at $0.0007 per minute.
Our proposal is no taxes on telecommunication. Period.