Now this makes sense

Practice abstinence
No Bush. No Dick.

Quote of the Day

On Native Voters:

"Participation is great, but now I want you to run. We have had enough white candidates winning from Indian votes. Now we need Indian Candidates winning from white votes."

Howard Dean addressing the Native American Caucus at the 2004 Democratic National Convention

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Amen! Hallelujah!!!

Iraqi Blogs

I love technology, and I love it when technology is used for the freedom of human expression...

Iraqi's seek a voice via blogs...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3632614.stm

Future of Iraq Portal...
http://www.justinalexander.net/iraq/

My Not So Subliminal Message

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VoIP is a good thing....
A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert

POTS is not...
Phone Bill Outrage

VoIP is a good thing...
New IP phone snom 190 addresses security in VoIP

POTS is not...
TeleTruth

VoIP is a good thing...
Nokia launches new solution bringing VoIP to broadband networks

POTS is not....
How The Bells Stole America's Digital Future

got VoIP?

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Fantasia

Hey, whatever happened to Fantasia Berrino? Fantasia was my girl. I used to look forward to watching American Idol every week just to hear her sing... I especially loved her performances of "Heard it through the Grapevine" and "Chain of Fools." I actually cried when she won...

There is a link on the American Idol page where she does the National Anthem... but it doesn't say what she is up to now days.... does anyone have any clues?

btw, there is also a link in the middle of the page with her final performance...

"I Believe"

The performance that reduced me to tears...

pbs (post blog script):
they removed the "I Believe" video clip from the American Idol page since i first wrote this.. *sniff
BUT I did find two audio clips here...

Summer is Closed

I should have seen it coming when they so rudely woke me up last weekend. I was having this really cool dream, the kind where you never want to wake up, when suddenly i heard all these strange loud noises outside. For a split second i thought we were under attack. I didn't know what was going on. I was trying to differentiate between my dream world and my half awake state when i finally realized it was the geese. There was this huge flock of them, and they were very loudly heading south for the winter.... it was as if they wanted to wake the whole reservation up to proclaim there departure.

I guess it didn't really hit me until yesterday what they were trying to say... it must be the denial. somewhere in the back of my mind i kept thinking the sun was going to come back out full force and warm us all up... but it hasn't happened that way... instead there is all this gray and cold and dreary stuff... stuff i don't do too well in.... stuff that can have the impact of rendering me immobile... i am not a cold weather being... i need warmth in my life...

In the old days it might have been a sign... a sign telling me to go up into the mountains and meditate on this... with further notice to not come back down until i had some commandments or tablets or a clear set of instructions in hand on how to deal with this cold...

But lucky for me, today it's more simple than that... today it gets to be a sign that i need to go down to the espresso stand and renew that frequent fliers card and start ordering doubles again... because for all intents and purposes, summer is officially closed.

Well i said oops

ok... two blogs in the same day. guess i'm feeling a little chatty. anyway, today i had a little too much to eat for lunch... not that i committed gluttony, but i usually like to eat a light lunch. so i was sitting there at my desk and was feeling kinda full so i unbuttoned the top button of my jeans. it' s casual friday so jeans are ok... people are usually scarce of fridays anyway. well then i get this visitor... no problem, i'm safe behind my desk. i just won't get up. we start talking a while, and then visitor # 2 pops in and then pops back out... i forgot about my jeans and got up to see what he wanted.. and there it was... this public display of my belly button... visitor #1 and visitor #2 are both just looking at me. i was like ooops... here i am supposed to be this IT professional and all... of course they are polite and say something about thinking it was a fashion trend. not a trend i want to get carried away with. guess this drives home the point... i better get serious and get my butt down to the gym...

either that or buy bigger jeans... or even worse... there is always the stretch pants section... yikes!

I Wish I had said That!

If you are into the whole VoIP debate you are either going to love this (or hate it if you are a "legacy" telco). These are quotes by FCC Chairman Michael Powell during an interview at the Always On 2004 Innovation Summit (keynote Fireside Chat):

"I knew it was over when I downloaded Skype. When the inventors of KaZaA are distributing for free a little program that you can use to talk to anybody else, and the quality is fantastic, and it's free ­ it's over. The world will change now inevitably."

"One of the hardest things I'm trying to convince governors presidents and leaders of the world [about]. Your kidding yourself if you think you can trap this in your little glass bottle like you're accustom to doing. The phone system right now is regulated on all kinds of metrics that will not ever work again."

"We're very accustom in law to regulating based on geography, distance, and time. All of which the internet shatters. Time becomes almost imperceptible, distance is unimportant, and geography is fiction."

"Go ahead... make this world hostile for VOIP. It will just go to Italy."

This is just too funny! I wish I had said that! Right on.... the genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back. Hey, didn't I say that to a few Telco Board Members and General Managers last summer??? Sorry... had to say that in case any of them trip upon my site.

Way to go, Mr. Powell! Now if you will follow through and do right by not regulating this technology you may become my new hero!