Did Amazon just fork the Android operating system with their Kindle Fire? That’s the question asked at Mashable today in a post "Amazon Kindle Fire Just Hijacked Android where it was noted that all the promotion around the Kindle Fire…
Sep 28
Congrats, I think, to Alec Saunders as RIM’s New VP of Developer Relations
Congratulations (I think) to my friend Alec Saunders for taking a new role as "VP of Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development" for Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the Blackberry line of mobile devices. Or perhaps condolences are in order……
Sep 28
Time Warner Cable Seeking More Volunteers for Residential IPv6 Trials
If your cable company here in the USA is Time Warner Cable and you get your high speed Internet access through them, they are looking for more volunteers for their residential IPv6 trials. This message below went out yesterday to the NANOG mailing list:
Time …
Sep 27
Video: Using an iPad to Create Tropo Applications
Stuck somewhere without a computer but with an iPad? My former colleague Chris Matthieu just posted this amusing video today of how he used only his iPad to create and deploy an application using the Tropo cloud communication service. I…
Sep 27
WordTwit Pro Gives You Excellent Controls for Auto-Tweeting of Posts
I’ve long been a fan of the WordTwit plugin from BraveNewCode and used it on both Voxeo’s blogs as well as my own to auto-tweet out new blog posts. Given that I write 99% of my blog posts offline (using…
Sep 26
Mitel Rolls Out UC Apps for iPhone and iPad
Good to see that Mitel is joining the iOS application space with Unified Communications apps for the iPhone and iPad. These apps will work with Mitel’s "Freedom" architecture to allow people to use their own iPhone or iPad device with…
Sep 26
The Frustration of Breast Cancer: Dealing With Hypotheticals And Going On Faith
No question perhaps highlights the frustration of breast cancer than the one I am frequently asked: So how is Lori doing? You see… physically she is doing perfectly fine. At least… she has been doing perfectly fine up until today when they will inject her with various noxious, toxic chemicals to make her worse so that in the end she will theoretically be better. This is the conundrum of early stage breast cancer. There are no physical signs. You are not "sick" in any noticeable way. You feel perfectly fine. In fact, my wife is probably in the best physical…
Sep 25
And So The Waiting Ends – With Chemo…
Well, at least we have an answer. We are no longer stuck in limbo. The results of the testing I mentioned in my last post on my wife’s tumor came back… and unfortunately not with the results we’d hoped for. It turned out that her tumor was slightly more on the aggressive side… and that they best they could estimate was that if she did nothing more there is only a 60% chance she’ll be cancer-free in 10 years. She’s only 43 years old… 10 years is not a long time. … and 60% is not really a great percentage….
Sep 23
The Uncomfortable Awkwardness of Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote
I cringed a lot yesterday. It was a bit painful at times to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation at Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday. Regarding the keynote, much is being written now about Facebook’s new (and very cool) Timeline feature and…
Sep 22
Why Klout Gets a FAIL For Their Notification Emails
These email notifications from Klout get a big, fat FAIL in my book: I should NEVER be REQUIRED to go back to your website to get notifications about your service. You have already interrupted my life by sending me an…
