Fred's online thoughts. What you can expect: Opinions on the Outsourced Product Development Business, technology in general and from time to time food! I have lots opinions on our great Canadian politicians, but you will have to pay me a beer when we get to meet to hear about them!
Telepocalypse by Martin Geddes: The telecom earthquake: "SIP is history as far as the future of voice is concerned. Get over it. The Vob is dead. Shuffled off to join the big pile of dead over-complex standards. DCE, CORBA — please make some space between you, we’ve got company tonight.
Comment: " This is a pretty harsh statement, read the full thing. His reasoning is founded, who can say about his conclusion though.
Bay Area home prices set new record - 2005-04-15: "The median price paid for a Bay Area home was $568,000, a new record. That was up 3.5 percent from $549,000 in February, and up 19.8 percent from $474,000 for March a year ago.
Comment: They have great weather, but this is a spiffy price to pay for a house. The avg for SF is 696k and Marin is 812k up 20.8%, I think in Gatineau we're about 150k if that and in canadian $$$"
Mark on Google Tutor found this newscast: "
Comment: Oh My this is so funny. It's one heck of a blooper, stumpled on this will visiting Google Tutor & Advisor" Give it a whirl, and LOL!
ITBusiness.ca: "We think that 2005 is finally the year when Canada has become serious about productivity
Comment: Amen Brother! Too long we've relied on our depreciated dollar, I include myself in this category. I don't know how we will do it, but we need to become more productive. How do we convince shermag to buy robots to crank out more from their assembly line? In a way for goods company the answer is simpler, and than for services company. How do you make a service company more productive, you make money selling hours? You have to do more in an hour than the competition. Hiring smart is a way, investing in the operations to make the cost structure of running the business stable, even when the service side is growing, is another. I wish I knew what else we could do?"
Slashdot | Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference: "
Comment: I wouldn't want to be the guy who's job is to accept/reject papers for the conference right now!"
Google Maps - 32 taylor gatineau: "
Comment: Unreal! Check out my house! Well granted I should try to show you something bigger for a better impact, alright guess what this is, and the answer. I stumbled on this service through make and this. Now you have people doing all sorts of kewl things with Google, linking up databases with their maps, check out the Craiglist's example in the make link"
I have the greatest 5year old, and when it gets "difficult" for him to do something he says "C'est difficile!" and hands us the thing he is doing for us to do". Well for the last week I have been caught with a technology problem, and I still haven't been able to resolve it, to tell you thr truth I'm just about to throw in the towel. It's so simple, I bought a BlueTooth USB adaptor for my laptop. The goal is to have my Treo phone talk to my PC through bluetooth, easy enough! No, to this day I still haven't figured what is wrong with my laptop or Treo, and get the two to connect or even see each other. It all started with problems installing the software that comes with the hardware itself. The technical documentation in the box is was out of date. After a couple of hours of fiddling with the install, not getting anywhere, I hit the web in search for what I was missing. Several hours later, it amounted to an XP SP2 problem, and the fact that my hardware provider doesn't sign its drivers, and M$ insists on using its own drivers, for good reasons I'm sure with all the spyware outthere. After manually instaslling the drivers, thinking I was golden, Err #n. I'm missing a license.dat file, I have to get it from my CD, because the driver I now use are from the web, I have to have the exact license.dat file, the CD is at work, it's like 2:00am, I'm at home. I was tired I decided to go to bed instead. Once I got the license file, bluetooth seemes to be up and running on my laptop, I can connect my bluetooth headset very useful when using VOIP softclients like Skype, but I still can't sync my Treo with my Laptop through Bluetooth. I feel like my mother in front of her computer, not understanding one bit what is wrong.
Google Search: define:blog: "
Comment: Multi-lingual dictionary. This is neat, I like it, multi-lingual and all"
