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Posts from ‘March, 2007’

Death Threats Against Female Tech Blogger

There are cowards and evil people everywhere – including amongst those who blog.
10 minutes ago I’d never heard of Kathy Sierra. That all changed when I came across this blog entry (by way of Slashdot), in which Ms. Sierra details specific threats made against her life, some of them sexual, all of them extremely violent.
Sierra [...]

Report from the Spring 2007 VON Expo

The Spring 2007 VON Expo in San Jose, CA was both impressive, and a little underwhelming, all at the same time.
It’s impressive in the sense that VoIP has come a long way in the last few years. There were many big names represented and they certainly take VoIP seriously now.
It was underwhelming in the sense [...]

They say progress is made in small steps

They say progress is made in small steps.
I don’t necessarily subscribe to that theory. I think progress is made in leaps and bounds. The corollary, by the way, is that all progress is made by unreasonable people (G. B. Shaw). Shaw said “unreasonable men”, but I think we can assume he meant “people”.