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May 19, 2006

May 19, 2006

Check out the new pictures of the Cleveland Cavaliers/Detroit Pistons game.

May 19, 2006

Yesterday I was driving and saw a convoy of Verizon trucks. For some reason I thought this was funny and had to take a photo of it without killing myself or the other drivers. I wonder what a good caption for this picture would be.

May 19, 2006

 

Service providers, session border controller makers as well as Broadsoft and Sylantro will likely be interested in the latest Executive Suite with Tekelec’s CEO Frank Plastina.

 

In addition if you love or hate IMS you will be very interested in Frank's candid comments.

May 19, 2006

Check out this VoIP tutorial site. Pretty quick way to get lots of people up to speed on a specific product or service. Perfect for customers, salespeople and even support personnel.

May 19, 2006

A friend just sent me this. Not sure if John wrote this or not but it is funny.

 

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To the citizens of the United States of America:

In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy).

Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise." You will learn that the suffix 'burgh' is pronounced 'burra'; you may elect to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you find you simply can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels (look up "vocabulary"). Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication.

2. There is no such thing as "US English." We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize."

3. You will relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out Task #1 (see above).

4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but to be celebrated only in England. It will be called "Come-Uppance Day."

5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.

6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric immediately and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

8. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") -roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps." Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with mayonnaise but with vinegar.

10. Waiters and waitresses will be trained to be more aggressive with customers.

11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer," and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager." American brands will be referred to as "Near-Frozen Gnat's Urine," so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

13. You will cease playing American "football." There is only one kind of proper football; you call it "soccer." Those of you brave enough will, in time, will be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the "World Series" for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.

14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due backdated to 1776.

Thank you for your co-operation.

John Cleese

May 19, 2006

There is more and more talk of MPLS it seems it is the buzzword of the month. Irwin Lazar talks about this a bit in his blog. I am seeing a similar correlation between VoIP and MPLS btw.

May 19, 2006

Great job Russell on covering the new Plantronics headset that does everything. The Voyager 510-USB Bluetooth Headset System does bluetooth and VoIP and seems to connect with just about everything. I wonder if the next release will support WiMAX and GSM as well so we can get rid of our cell phones.

May 19, 2006

Andy has some commentary here on why AOL would choose Broadwing over Level3. Here is an excerpt:

 

I wonder if Broadwing will be a serious challenger to Level3 going forward. There is likely enough business for both but until recently Broadwing was very quiet. I wonder if we will start hearing more and more about them.

May 19, 2006

May 19, 2006

 

Houston has released a draft for city-wide WiFi according to Save Muni Wireless. Here are some interesting details from the blog entry:

 

The City's vision is to apply ubiquitous, low-cost wireless Internet access as a foundation for the City of Houston to become the most efficient, effective and responsive city government in the nation—while stimulating economic development and promoting digital inclusion for low-income and disadvantaged residents.

 

One remarkable part of this proposal is that it explicitly embraces the concept of "net neutrality". The City will require that the operator open up the network to wholesale service, which would allow any ISP to participate. Chalk that up to another exciting innovation that's being driven by muni networks.

 

It would seem that in the long run, service providers will see more and more competition from the cities.

May 19, 2006

Here are some of Om’s comments on the AMD/Dell deal. This story is major news. Om thinks that in the future Dell will not only use AMD chips in servers but in laptops as well. I tend to agree since AMD announced it will soon ship 64-bit dual-core processors designed for laptops. One interesting point here is that in the HMP space or host media processing where the CPU acts as a DSP, many of Intel’s rivals hope AMD does better and better. The reason is that Intel HMP solutions don’t work on AMD chips. Many other ones do.