April 2004

Leafs Suck

April 18, 2004

or at least, that’s how the song goes…. no sorrows being drowned here. The Sens won because at the end of the day, the geriatrics that the Leafs have on their team ran out of gas.  See you game 7! 

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VoIP and Watermelon Seeds

April 13, 2004

Via Jeff Pulver: Tim McElligott’s The Tao of VoIP.  Short, but inciteful… to be anything more than a cheap, commoditized blending of voice and data into a stew of packetized content, large service providers need to utilize platforms that can spit out targeted application for very specific customer needs like watermelon seeds.

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Eating my words — Leafs vs. Sens Game 3

April 13, 2004

Wow.  That’s the only appropriate response.  The Sens put on an amazing display, with shot after shot on the Toronto net, but Belfour was impenetrable.  That was a heartbreaker. 

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SQL Server on my latop? WTF!

April 13, 2004

Sneaky Microsoft has done it again.  I just installed Office 2003 Professional Edition.  It has a slick, beautifully crafted user interface.  Typical of the Office team’s attention to detail, it has ironed out all kinds of problems with the old product.  Word now has a viewer mode that brings up documents in beautiful cleartype text.  Outlook has [...]

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Cable consortium?

April 13, 2004

From Light Reading: Cable Cadre Talks VOIP (Light Reading). This, of course, is massive news.  Cable networks, coast to coast, in a cooperative VoIP network.  It’s the moral, if not technical, equivalent of the old regional bells model, with Neustar in the role that AT&T held. Plus ça change, plus cest la mème.

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Vonage in Canada

April 13, 2004

From Om Malik — Vonage goes to Canada. Of course, you read it here almost two weeks ago . Om writes: Vonage announced that it is going to offer its service to Canadians and will charge them pretty much the same price as what it is charging in the US. It is going to put [...]

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April 10, 2004

Oddities of the Web Finally, somebody in a chicken costume who will do whatever you want. Check it out: http://www.subservientchicken.com

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April 9, 2004

Humble Fred Ottawa Song Courtesy of Randy The Humble Fred Ottawa Song.  Makes you wonder, though, who’s gonna get humbled after tonights spectacular display of ineptitude by the Leafs…

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April 7, 2004

Gurley on the All IP Network News.com carries Bill Gurley’s new piece on the all IP network.  On voice, he says “marginal pricing will eventually approach marginal cost”.

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April 6, 2004

Passover firebombing in Montreal The story of the firebombing of a Jewish school’s libary in Montreal has been weighing heavily on me all day.  It was a cowardly and hateful act.  In the middle of the night, extremists of some sort, crept up to the school, threw fire accelerants through the windows and burned a children’s [...]

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