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Date: June 22nd, 2006

Close it!

22 June, 2006 (18:09) | Humor, Political | No comments

Apparantly the FBI is making a ton of terrorism related raids in Miami today
MIAMI (AP) — FBI agents investigating terrorism-related activities were conducting a number of raids and had made several arrests Thursday, federal officials said.
Miami U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta said in a statement that it was an ongoing operation and that more details would [...]

Vonage’s Death Knell

22 June, 2006 (16:34) | Business, Telecom | No comments

On top of the fierce competition from Skype , not to mention the telco/cableco incumbents own VOIP offerings, and its abyssmal IPO performance, Vonage (and other VOIP to PSTN providers in the US) will now have to cough up a percentage of their fees for rural telecom subsidies. The Bells must just be rolling [...]

It’s TFH time

22 June, 2006 (16:27) | Computer, Personal, Technology | 1 comment

Awhile ago my good Compaq two button ball mouse finally went to the great mouser in the sky. I wanted to get a ballless laser mouse as a replacement but all the ones I could find in this area were USB powred and my KVM switch does not accept USB so as I needed one [...]

Memo: Replacing Mouse Balls

22 June, 2006 (16:10) | Humor | No comments

I received this in my inbox this morning. This has to be one of the oldest jokes on the Internet. I know I first saw it back around ‘92 or ‘93 when a user uploaded it to my BBS. I doubt it was ever intended as a serious memo, probably more like an [...]

Huh?

22 June, 2006 (11:31) | Personal | No comments

I’m simply dumfounded - from the rest of the conversation I could not be certain this was not a serious question
Visitor: where are you guys located?
Doug Alder: Canada.
Visitor: my packets arent going to get stuck in customs are they?
It’s a good thing this was an online chat as I was laughing so hard [...]

 

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