Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]