(picture unrelated) Over the past week or two I have gone through an interesting confluence of issues, all centered around communications. 1. My Comcast Triple Play is about to hit the one-year mark, which means that my rates are about to go way the hell up. 2. My company is deploying Cisco IP phones to [...]

(picture related) Like Dolores Claiborne used to say: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.” I guess since this is fool me thrice, it’s the part when Dolores pushed her husband down the dry well. They did it again: one more time they scheduled to come here and finally pull [...]

Yes it is. Well, it’s done. The SCOTUS has gunned down DC’s ban on gun ownership under constitutional grounds. Bang! This is the first major SCOTUS ruling on the Second Amendment. The argument? DC claimed that the Second Amendment was meant to maintain militias. Everyone else claimed that there was no such thing, that it [...]

TUAW was kind enough to remind suckers (the ones that waited in line for a day or long for the iPhone’s first sale) that their warranties are about to expire: Do you hear that ticking noise? It’s your iPhone’s warranty preparing to go “boom.” [From Original iPhone warranties about to expire - The Unofficial Apple [...]

The go-fast gurus at Ferrari are working on a successor to the jaw-dropping Enzo that could be the lightest, quickest two-seater ever to roll out of Maranello. We told you months ago the Scuderia’s next supercar would be based on the Millechili concept that embraces the “less is more” ethos. Ferrari sees lighter cars as [...]

Americans are consuming caffeinated beverages as never before. In fact, energy drink sales skyrocketed in 2007. The sale of Rockstar, which contains up to 360 mg of caffeine per can, compared with 80 to 150 mg per serving for coffee, rose 38.9 percent in 2007, according to Beverage Digest. Redbull sales rose 19 percent. All [...]

Daniel Lyons, the writer behind Fake Steve Jobs, is usually funny as hell. Now he is bringing it up to 11 by having Fake Jerry Yang as a guest blogger. If you thought Fake Steve was funny, this is even better. It is not better because it is funnier, but because it is so right [...]

This weekend was pretty active, work projects hit the eye of the hurricane, and I had a queue of horror movies to watch: The Omen Pentalogy: The Omen: One of my favorite horror movies of all time. It doesn’t belong to a bad movie weekend lineup, I only watched it to keep the story line [...]

For those of you that missed that mess, Sunrocket was a VoIP service that promised unlimited domestic and long distance calls in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico for $200/year or less, depending on the promotion. Sometimes you even got a $50 cordless phone just for signing up. The service was provided through a black [...]