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Plugging the leaks
“I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go
I’m filling the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go”
The Beatles, “Fixing a Hole” Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
For years I’ve thought of it as ‘plugging the leaks’ and in a [...]
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Back at it…
“ (Ooh) I feel so good tonight
(Ooh) Who cares about tomorrow
(Ooh) So baby, you’d better believe
I’m back…back in the New York Groove…”
Ace Frehley, Back in the New York Groove
Ahhh Ace Frehley…the space man. If you were a tween or young teen boy in the 70’s or the early 80’s and liked rock and roll, kiss [...]
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Like many dorky types, I’m a big fan of Star Wars. I always have been…when I was a kid I actually had Star Wars wallpaper in my bedroom. Didn’t have the sheets and blankets though…some lines aren’t worth crossing. I, of course, own all 6 movies on DVD and have actually [...]
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I’m seriously thinking of removing this app. I think it’s a good app. It’s one of the few good apps on facebook; it’s one that can be used on a regular basis and is an effective way of transmitting rich media information to your whole network without having to email everyone. Not [...]
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I’ve had some travels the past couple of weeks. The week before last I went to San Antonio for some customer meetings and then up to Richardson (in Dallas) for some other customer meetings. It was my first time in San Antonio, but I’d spent some time in Dallas in my Nokia days.
If you’ve never [...]
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A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away I used to actually write posts about the industry I work in. It’s been a while since I’ve done so, but this morning’s news has prompted me to.
First some background. North America has long lagged behind Europe in promoting Voice over IP [...]
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“Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.” – Joe Friday, Dragnet
Blogland seems to break itself into two different sectors: Citizen Journalism and OpEd. Personally, I’m an op/ed guy…everything in here is purely personal opinion, and I don’t spend much time [...]
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Thanks to the chief for posting this (while you’re at his blogsite, check out his new wheels…zero down no interest sale…maybe i should go look at a wrx…). I have no idea what they’re saying here, but I always like a good jackie chan style-no-one-gets-hurt fight. By the way, the dude in this video [...]
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VON/VONage/VerizON
Well spring Von was last week, and for the first time since I’ve been in the VoIP industry I didn’t attend a VON show. It was ok cuz I hadn’t recieved my new passport yet anyways, and because of Canada’s vast propensity for terrorism I wouldn’t have been allowed into everybody’s favorite xenophobic country. I [...]
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I’m so far behind in blog-o-rama…oh well; the joys of holidays (more on the funny road names outside of chilliwack in a later post…)
Anyways, a few days ago Duane decided to start up the CFL challenge. As we’ve recently been informed, it appears there’s an 85% possibility that global warming has [...]
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Blogspace reality check…
***/me puts on the ol’ MadVoiper hat…****
Ahhh sometimes it’s sweet to live in a bubble of self generated pseudo reality. When we spend alot of time inside a particular industry or media we tend to lose perspective on things outside that, and we start to generate our own reality.
Andy Abramson wrote a post on [...]
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Chris’s Blog
Another dude I know started up his own blog yesterday. So far it seems to be alot of preening, ego boosting and self gratifying naughty words. Which I like, so it’s all good. Check it out and give him some props. Or call him on his BS…either way. He’s one of the 3 or 4 [...]
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The Internet: 2 years to legal!
So apparently the World Wide Web as we know it had it’s 16th birthday yesterday. I’m a little bummed I missed it…it would have been a great excuse to buy a DQ ice cream cake. It’s hard for me to believe that the internet is only 16 years old; I think of all the hours [...]
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Does the Internet Suck?
Thanks to Mark Evans for pointing me to the original article and writing a (probably much better than mine) essay on the subject on his blog.
I mean anything other than time? Last week, MacLean’s magazine (a weekly news magazine up here in the frozen north kind of in the Time vein) published a story title [...]
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I *Heart* New York
So I got back last night from NYC, already planning a vacation there in the spring. I don’t know why I’ve never spent much time there before… To quote Frank Sinatra that’s my kinda town (er…it occurs to me, not really being a big Sinatrafficiondo and all, that he may have been singing about Vegas…but [...]
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IF you were a Canadian growing up in the 70’s and 80’s you’re probably familiar with Triumph. They were the other big Canadian prog rock band, although more rock than prog. Where Rush was always bordering on pretentious intellectualism, Triumph occasionally had some fun too. Anyways, there guitarist/singer was Rik Emmet (who, by the [...]
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Off to the Big Apple
So I’m heading out to New Jersey on Wednesday to meet with some customers, and they’ve invited us out for dinner on Thursday night in Times Square. I’m pretty stoked, as NYC is the one major US city that I’ve not spent much time in. It should be a good time.
My flights for this trip [...]
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Chris Kranky (great blog name, btw Chris!) writes in his post today that he feels consumer broadband VoIP adoption is done; on the downward spiral as it were. Chris seems to feel that since Skype has more web traffic than Vonage then Vonage must have reached all 3 million tech savvy consumers in its market. [...]
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So Tom Keating wrote a post in his blog the other day about how shocked he was that the billing department drone at
Vonage didn’t know as much about VoIP or TMC magazine as he does. He was also shocked that they attempted to keep his business. This created a buzz in the blogosphere for some [...]
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To move or not to move?
So my sales territory is Eastern North America…anything East of Winnipeg in Canada and anything East of the Mississippi in the US falls into my list. What this means to someone living in Vancouver BC is waking up every day at 4:30 AM to be at work for 9 AM Eastern. It also means a [...]
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