Archive for: November 2004

With a couple of exceptions, I read the vast majority of my daily web content by means of RSS, which is an acronym with a couple of different meanings. In short, it provides a quick way to check up on …

Andy Abramson gave me a very nice pointer to me in my blog today. I kind of feel like a wallfower at the prom who got asked to dance by a popular girl.

There’s a lot going …

It’s a good thing I moderate all the comments posted to my blog or you’d get to see lots of offers to buy drugs or see porn. I get more spam comments than real ones, which is kind of sad.

Om and Jeff both got slashdotted today thanks to someone bringing Slashdot to the party: SBC’s VoIP End Run.

One of the comments in respnse to this on Slashdot reminded me of something important: Qwest explicitly agreed …

Today, my marketing person at Addison Wesley sent me an email telling me another review had been posted about my Essential Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 NG book on the IEEE reviews site. Unfortunately, it is password protected. It’s …

One of my coleagues at Voxilla wrote up a piece about SBC calling their now TIPToP service voluntary. Maybe I’m just skeptical, but I still don’t believe it.

My employer appears to be changing their policy about paying for my broadband connection, or at least have now set a general policy about it. The policy will work for about 98% of the employees, most of which only work …

Andy Abramson pointed out to me that you didn’t have to use a headset with just a PC. He was responding to my recent lament about being bound to my computer by Skype.

Who Says you have …

I can’t believe I missed this yesterday when I was looking through my RSS Feeds. Om Malik’s entry on how SBC is using their monopoly powers to snuff out the VoIP competition is absolutely spot-on.

Any of …

It’s funny, I was just thinking about how the one thing I don’t like about softphones of any sort is that they “bind” me to my computer. It’s not like I don’t spend too much time in front of one …