Virginia Tech

If you think your life sucks, do not take it out on other people.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/16/vtech.shooting/index.html

i vs Pi

Here's the Recap

http://gigaom.com/tag/vonage

(Death by) Taxes

Even though I usually get a refund, I HATE doing my taxes... It's such a pita... At least it's just about done. I'm thinking all these people who send me all these fricken forms should just send them to the IRS and let them figure it out. And screw deductions... I don't qualify for most of them anyway.

Maybe I'm just too lazy...

Pretty Classy

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-vonage0414.artapr14,0,294380.story?coll=hc-headlines-business

The other thing that impressed me about Citron is that he actually gave the same presentation he gives to colleges to his employees. I personally don't know of any other executive that's ever shared internally what they present externally.

Verizon Claims the Internet

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/12/al-gore-can-rest-easy-verizon-claims-the-internet-2/

Missed the Axe

Today is not a good day, but I am safe for now.

Interesting Analysis

http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/funds/followmoney/10349461.html

April 24th is the day

http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070411/BUSINESS/704110381/1003

Patent Analysis

Again, many thanks to the people who actually want to write about the facts of this case instead of misleading stories.


http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1517

How Could Anyone Not Love This?

This is totally going onto my digital photo frame! (A birthday gift from Ron)

I cannot stress this enough...

When relying on a computer for your important documents...

SAVE EARLY AND SAVE OFTEN!!!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Lisa / Welcome Back Jesus

So, yesterday was Easter and my 29th birthday.

Earlier in the week, Ron told me he ordered my cake, but he was worried he had given them some incorrect information and that the wrong thing could be written on it.

My response was, "With my luck, it says 'Welcome Back Jesus.'"

After he stopped laughing (which took a while) he said, "What I was going to say is that they spelled your name Asil."

After all of that, I found out that my dad had gotten me a cake, too. So, I gave my dad a special request. As a joke to tease Ron, write "Welcome Back Jesus" on the cake.

He did, and my brother has declared that it shall thus be a new Easter tradition that we should have a cake that reads "Welcome Back Jesus."

Anyway, I had a really great time w/ my family yesterday, and I also had a good time w/ my brother and his wife, her friends, and my friend Tom at the Colorado Cafe on Saturday night. I also received a multitude of gift certificates, a photo frame, a candle and a necklace and earings for my wedding.

Yay - something in our favor!

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/04/appeals-court-stays-vonage-injunction.php

For those who are following...

Computing at Bear Rock

Having a nice evening computing at Bear Rock Cafe in South Plainfield. Nice place. Back to helping out the Skyliners with web stuff. It's a good thing.

Breakthrough!!!

I've (sort of) figured something out that I've been banging my head against the wall for about two weeks over.

The cool part about my job is that I get to play w/ stuff and try to make it work... The hard part is that things that I *have* to make work by a certain time.

Ah well.

More Vonage Stuff

Here's another good thing to read if you want to read the news that makes sense and avoid the stupid things analysts make up for headlines.

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=120412

2007 NY Skyliners Season Kickoff Dance

Woo hoo - it's time to paaar-ty!!!

2007 New York Skyliners Season Kickoff Dance

Date: April 21st, 2007
Time: 8:00PM - Midnight
Place: Dover American Legion (2 Legion Place Dover, NJ)
Cost: $35 per person
Price Includes: Hot and cold buffet / beer, wine and soda / coffee, tea and dessert
For tickets contact: Ron Lawrence (908)756-0289 / ronlfrmnj@aol.com

You do not have to be a member of any of the Skyliners organizations to attend. This event is limited to 150 guests. Must be 21 or older.

Verizon vs Vonage patent case

For anyone worried about the future of Vonage, this article sounds the most truthful of any I've seen online.

http://gigaom.com/2007/03/16/vonage-rocky-road-not-road-kill/

Got a new laptop!

Went to a computer show on Saturday and bought a refurbished laptop. It was making me crazy not to have my own...

I stayed with the idea of wanting something small, so I got a Dell Latitude C400. It's nice and light.

Pluses: Software on the machine itself is worth what I paid for it - MS Office, XP Pro, and Symantic Antivirus all included.

Minuses: I need to buy a USB card to support USB 2.0 (1.1 is not fast enough for anybody, sorry!) CD/DVD bay is external. Don't really use that unless I'm installing new software, so it's not a big deal for me.

Also, the folks I bought it from are very interested in buying the broken one from me.

Overall, it's a downgrade from what I had before, but for $450, it's worth it to have a machine. Someday when I'm feeling "rich" I'll get a shiny new one with all the features I really want...