January 2004

Meridian Vineyards 1999 Dusi Vineyard Zinfandel

by alec on January 31, 2004

Day of skiing, followed by red wine and pizza. We cracked Meridian Vineyards 1999 Dusi Vineyard Zinfandel this evening. I’m heartbroken. I had only one bottle. This wine is everything that you can love about zinfandel. From the outset, a huge, fruity, brambly nose. On the tongue, raspberry, cranberry, pepper and spice. Slight woodiness from the oak, but mostly jam with nutmeg and cinnamon. Long finish, few tannins. I picked this up at the LCBO’s Vintages store for a paltry $19.95. What a steal.

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Vinography

by alec on January 30, 2004

Randy sent a link to Vinography, which looks super. Lots of reviews of California wines that we can’t get back here in Canada. The author of the site uses a 10 point scale, and provides very nice descriptions of the wines tasted.

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January 27, 2004

VoIP is about competition! Jon Arnold is analyst firm Frost and Sullivan’s VoIP program leader. In I want my VoIP he writes: So why are the RBOCs (regional Bell operating companies) and Canadian incumbents getting serious about VoIP now? Competition. So why are the long-distance carriers (IXCs) getting serious about VoIP now? Competition. So why are [...]

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January 26, 2004

Ontario: A Place to Grow This little satire of the Ontario song arrived in my mailbox this past week.

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January 25, 2004

Bill Gates, KBE Bill is to be honoured with a knighthood. Congratulations, Bill. You deserve it.

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High end Ontario wine outlets?

January 22, 2004

Liberals like idea of stores showcasing Ontario wines, reports the Toronto Star. This is a good development. It’s criminal that it’s easier to buy a bottle of Australian or French than Ontario in the provincially run MONOPOLY’s store, when Niagara is less than 2 hours from the main depot for the store.

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January 22, 2004

Dana Blankenhorn on Broadsoft Dana has a pretty strong opinion on Broadsoft’s latest announcements here. He says that VoIP shouldn’t be a carrier service at all, that it should simply be an application. The implication is that you should be able to buy voice communications as a $99 application, and never talk to the service [...]

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January 21, 2004

LinkedIn – more than just links Randy at [iBLOGthere4iM] writes: In the last month, I’ve received three contact requests thru linked-in. All three connections were painlessly established w/in the Linked-in network, but that is where the process ended. I’ve since emailed the contacts to find out what is up, only to have my emails ignored. [...]

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January 17, 2004

Zoomerang Since yesterday I’ve had 46 respondents to my What’s the VoIP Killer App survey. If I can get the responses up to 100, I’ll publish the results here for everyone to see. So far, the leading feature that people want from VoIP is simply cheap long distance, followed by things that give you more control [...]

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January 16, 2004

The killer VoIP app? Parks Associates just published a new survey today stating that 52% of all broadband households found VoIP interesting. They want on to tell that this was a survey of 3300 households, etc, and then analyst John Barrett stated: “Consumers are looking at VoIP service as a replacement for their primary phone [...]

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