May 2004

Regulating VoIP in Canada

May 19, 2004

Jeff Pulver went to Ottawa monday to talk with the CRTC about regulation, amongst other things. This morning’s Globe has a Dave Ebner piece on a talk Jeff gave yesterday as well, on the same topic. Yesterday at VON Canada I also heard Brooke Shultz of Vonage, and Dave Epstein of Broadvoice express the same [...]

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Cline 1999

May 10, 2004

It’s Janice’s birthday, and we’re on our second bottle of wine! I dug the last bottle of Cline’s 1999 Old Vines Carignane out of my cellar. (Here’s a link to the 2001) The last time I tasted this wine, two years ago, it was overpoweringly bitter. Wow! What a difference time makes. On the nose, vanilla, and a [...]

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May 8, 2004

Offshoring The congressional offshoring flap is disappointing to watch. The reason this is such an issue is protectionism. E M E R G I C . o r g points to News.com 4-part series on offshoring this week, with the summary as follows: · U.S. needs reforms, not rhetoric: Government officials, business leaders and academics [...]

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May 7, 2004

Trying Newsgator I’ve reached the point where Radio’s news aggregator has just gotten too cumbersome for ordinary use. So, I am going to try Newsgator for a bit. It lives inside Outlook, and appears able to post anything. Will let you know how it goes.

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May 6, 2004

Anyone can be a carrier Via Om Malik: $10,000 and you are a phone company. These days, the international telecoms game seems a virtual cottage industry. According to Chris Edgecomb, CEO of California-based wholesaler Sirius Telecom, it now costs only $10,000 to set yourself up as a global carrier. The reward is your share of [...]

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May 5, 2004

CNET reviews VoIP phones and service providers Good review. Explains what the options are, and has some real life user interviews. Editors choice goes to Skype and Vonage. INTERNET PHONES: CNET EDITORS’ GUIDE TO VOIP (ZDNet). Your next telephone may not actually be a telephone. It may look and work like a phone, but it [...]

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May 4, 2004

Flyers 3, Leafs 2 I have to admit that I felt sorry for the Leafs at the end. They put out an incredible effort to tie the game. It had to have been hard to lose on that last goal. In honour of that heroic last period, I shall leave the hated Leafs logo up [...]

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Paypal API

May 3, 2004

This is a big deal: PayPal Unveils Web Services APIs. Think about it — a general purpose, programmable payment and funds transfer service. With this, you could build systems to reconcile all kinds of transactions programmatically — VoIP micropayment billing systems, for instance.

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Big ideas in my inbox

May 2, 2004

It’s been my day for having neat ideas pop into my newsreader. So, without further ado… The Smug Canada writes about the idea of adding RSS to video games. The idea is you could publish stats, subscribe to other peoples feeds and so on. What about the idea of using FOAF as a rendezvous mechanism [...]

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Cline 2001 Zinfandel

May 1, 2004

Found the Cline 2001 Zinfandel on the LCBO shelf this evening. I was in search of something inexpensive ($15.10 at the LCBO), and good to go with BBQ’d food. This one has a classic zinfandel nose of berries and spice, but surprises on the palate. It’s tangy, with the characteristic berries and cherry of zin, [...]

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