Month: March 2007
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ETEL pictures from O’Reilly now online via Flickr…
Continue Reading: ETEL pictures from O’Reilly now online via Flickr…I mentioned it previously, but James Duncan Davidson has now put the set of photos he took for O’Reilly up on Flickr. So if you would like to vicariously experience the conference, check out the set. I particularly liked this one to the right (click for the larger image). Just a great use of focus and depth of field. The person in focus is actually Jay Phillips, developer of Adhearsion, a Ruby framework for building applications on top of Asterisk.
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Ranting about how very wrong ComputerWorld.au is about enterprises avoiding IP telephony for teleworkers
Continue Reading: Ranting about how very wrong ComputerWorld.au is about enterprises avoiding IP telephony for teleworkersComputerWorld in Australia came out with an article today headlined “Enterprises must avoid IP telephony for teleworkers or face attack“. Given that I use a secure teleworker phone on a daily basis, I was immediately struck by the headline and felt compelled to write a response over on Voice of VOIPSA: “Why Computerworld.au is dead wrong about… “. I think you can gather my opinion from the title. It will be interesting to see if there is any response from ComputerWorld (I’ve emailed them the link).
The sad thing is that outside of the headline, the rest of the article was more or less okay. Just a bad headline…
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Stupid airline UI tricks… what would happen if I did NOT accept the rebooking through Dulles?
Continue Reading: Stupid airline UI tricks… what would happen if I did NOT accept the rebooking through Dulles?I was rather dumbfounded a few minutes ago when I went down to the kiosk in the hotel lobby to print my border passes. After logging in to United’s webs site, I was immediately confronted by a big warning message:
Due to cancellations you have been rebooked onto the following flights:
<new flight info>
[No thank you] [Accept this flight]
“No thank you?” Huh? You have just been told that due to cancellations you are being rebooked – so why would you NOT choose “Accept this flight?” What happens if you press “No thank you”? Could you try another route? In this case would I have actually been booked on the same flight? Huh? (Needless to say, I didn’t try it.)
I guess the good news is that I’ll be avoiding Chicago tomorrow and flying down to DC (to Dulles) and then from there to Burlington. The other good news is that I’m not going to have to be at the airport at 4:45 in the morning… the bad news is that the flight gets in 2 hours later… but hey, I just want to get home!
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ETEL – Black Bag Security Presentation, 243 slides, Lessig connection, errata… slides available
Continue Reading: ETEL – Black Bag Security Presentation, 243 slides, Lessig connection, errata… slides availableSo “the talk” finished around 11:15am this morning… I’ve just been straight out and unable to blog until now. The “Black Bag Security Review” was fun to do and I’ve been receiving a great amount of positive feedback and kind words from folks here. As you’ll see below, I’m going to include the slides here in Flash (I finally get a reason to experiment with SlideShare!). I’ll put a PDF up here as well once I get back to Vermont. It seems that after my laptop was reformatted, I never re-installed Acrobat to do PDF exports.
However, the slides aren’t really that much use without the audio, but I’ll be putting the audio up on Blue Box sometime in the next week or so and will post an update here with a link.
Had a couple of interesting questions and points of feedback about the talk (and things I noticed):
- Yes, there were actually 243 slides and yet it came in a hair under 15 minutes. This is a very different way of presenting than a “traditional” deadly PowerPoint presentation. More slides… minimal text… fast transitions. The point is to accent your story and leave the focus on you and what you are…
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Not looking so good for the flights back East from ETel…
Continue Reading: Not looking so good for the flights back East from ETel…Travelling in the US at this time of year is always a gamble. This is the time of large storms with snow, ice, sleet and all sorts of things that don’t particularly work well with large metal tubes flinging themselves through the air. The trip out would have been a complete mess had I flown 24 hours earlier… and now the trip back is looking like it has the potential to be… um… “interesting”. I’m leaving very early tomorrow morning flying United… and frequent travellers will immediately realize that flying United pretty much guarantees I’m flipping through Chicago.
Students of North American geography will take one look at the CNN weather forecast map to the right (click for a larger version) and realize the impending problem. For those not familar with the layout of our fair land, well… you see where that “L” is? Designating the center of the storm? Chicago is just a tiny bit to the right of that… pretty much where the cloud and other symbol is – meaning that it probably won’t be a terribly good travel day today in Chicago. United has already announced “severe weather problems” affecting Minnesota, which is just a…
