Remember perl? The “scripting language” that was the one of the first that many of us used on UNIX to automate system administration tasks? And then was later used in the 1990s for a ton of web CGI …
Oct 08
Dilbert Nails One Of The Inherent Challenges of Standards
Dilbert nails it… (back in August 2011)
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Oct 07
EU Gives Okay To Microsoft Acquisition of Skype
To I think no one’s real surprise, the European Union today gave the go-ahead to Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype. Given that the US Federal Trade Commission okayed the deal back in June, there should be no further barriers to the…
Oct 07
1997 Video of Steve Jobs: "Focusing is about saying no"
In all the ongoing commemoration of Steve Jobs, a friend posted to Facebook this short video clip of Steve Jobs from the 1997 WWDC event that so perfectly captures his design philosophy … and that "focusing is about saying no":…
Oct 06
The Internet Cries Out Its Collective Wail of Anguish At The Passing Of Steve Jobs
There are no words… although many are being written. On an intellectual level, perhaps, we knew it was coming. When he stepped down as CEO back in August, we knew Steve Jobs was in trouble. No one who is as…
Oct 04
Watching Live Blogs FAIL During Apple’s iOS 5 Event
Today was a fascinating day to watch live-blogging services fail in a rather dramatic way. Engadget… Gizmodo… MacRumors… ArsTechnica… and more… Unless you were under a rock or otherwise hiding offline, you know that today was the big, huge, ginormous…
Oct 04
Avaya Acquires UC Security Firm and SBC Vendor Sipera Systems
Fascinating news today that Avaya has acquired Sipera Systems for an undisclosed sum. We’ve covered Sipera here on this blog any number of times over the past years as they have been one of the few firms very specifically focused on “VoIP security”, or, to be more appropriately buzzword-compliant in 2011, “Unified Communications security.” In […]
Oct 04
1 Day Left To Register for the Harpoon Brewery Octoberfest 5K on Oct 9th
How can you go wrong with a 5K race where your entry fee gets you 2 beers, a bratwurst and a beer stein? Plus, apparently, a lot of people running with you wearing "German" costumes? Our local Harpoon Brewery in Windsor, VT, is holding their 9th annual Octoberfest 5K Race this Sunday, October 9, 2011, at 11:00am. Followed, of course, by the Vermont edition of Harpoon’s Octoberfest celebration (there was also one last weekend in Boston). I haven’t finalized yet if I’ll be running in it, but a neighbor of mine is, and it’s tempting not only for all the…
Oct 04
NoJitter.com Launches New Design, Better Interaction
Kudos to my friend Eric Krapf and his whole team for the redesign of one of my favorite sites for VoIP and Unified Communications news: http://www.nojitter.com/ Way back in late 2007, Eric started as the "lead blogger" for NoJitter as…
Oct 03
Want to Run UP a Ski Area? The 5K Mountain Goat Scramble is Oct 8th
So this sounds like a pretty wacky local race… the "5K Mountain Goat Scramble" takes place this Saturday, October 8, 2011, at our local Granite Gorge Ski Area in Roxbury, NH (just outside of Keene). It’s a 5K race where you run up to the halfway point of the ski trails and then back down … and DO THAT FOUR TIMES! I have skied all the trails where the race is running and know the exact route they are doing… it’s going to be tough to run that loop four times! I’m not sure exactly what our plans are for…
