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July 19, 2007
The airline industry is experiencing record growth according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. This is great news for the airline I am flying on today as they can finally fix this window shade in the exit row.
Thankfully when I was done reading this favorable airline article, I was able to stuff it in the space where the window shade should have been.
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July 19, 2007
I received e-mails from a number of bloggers this morning linking to their stories about ooma, the latest p2p VoIP scheme promising free long distance to the masses. The difference between ooma and other p2p solutions like Skype is the ooma solution utilizes phone lines of existing customers to terminate calls in local areas.
A call placed on the ooma network from San Francisco to the 203 area code would be terminated on an ooma box in someone’s house in the 203 area code. The question worth asking (and I have not had a briefing from the company as of yet) is what security measures are used to ensure I am not listening in on other callers.
If that caller from San Francisco is calling their broker they most likely won’t be thrilled to have me listening to their phone call.
To be fair, this is pretty obvious and I imagine the company has a solution to this problem. But I am just not able to figure out how the call could be sent to the PSTN from my house while keeping me from tapping in quite easily. More to come.
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July 19, 2007
TMC’s own Richard Zippy Grigonis missed the New York explosion by a few hours. Thankfully he is OK. Here is what happened from his perspective:
I'm fine. I had an 12:30 p.m. appointment in the Chanin Building, an Art Deco skyscraper built in 1928. It occupies Lexington Avenue from 42nd Street to a point about half-way down the block toward 41st Street.
At about 1 p.m. I got in a cab, which made a right onto Lexington Avenue, moving south over the intersection of 41st and Lexington. Nothing exciting about that, at least not until nearly 5 hours later, at about 5:57 p.m., when a transformer beneath 41st Street exploded, tearing open a 20-inch diameter steam pipe that blew a big crater across 41st Street (between Lexington and Third Avenues) and sent mud and rubble flying into the air, accompanied by a huge roaring geyser of 1,000 degree (Fahrenheit) superheated steam that sent big cottony clouds soaring higher than even the nearby 77-floor Chrysler Building.
The crater swallowed a tow truck, and the explosion killed one person and caused hundreds to flee the area, which of course was engulfed in steam, asbestos and other toxic airborne substances. Grand Central Station, nearby subways and traffic in general came to a halt.
All though no terrorism was involved, the magnitude of this disaster reminds me of the World Trade Center and my visit to the Wild Blue Restaurant at the top of one of the towers just before 9/11.
I think maybe I shouldn't visit New York City so often!
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