I give up on Wikipedia. It sucks.

Why? Let me tell you!

Wikipedia has lost all functionality for me and many community users due to one simple reason. It is no longer a NPOV publication. NPOV stands for Neutral Point of View. The zealots have taken over. When you attempt to edit or add an article of value it will almost immediately be revoked or deleted by someone who does not share your point of view, even if your writings are neutral.

Gone are the days you can actually enter valuable information on a subject or expect to find NPOV information during your research. In fact it's rumored that companies have actually hired staff to patrol the wiki and delete any information they don't like.

I'm too lazy to type more, but you get the picture. Wikipedia sucks and I am done with it.

I couldn't help but post this picture I took of a sign on the door at Target in Keller, TX. I am still trying to figure out what I am supposed to do.

Well the evil Swiss are at it again. It appears the government has enacted laws allowing them to post United States Driver's Licenses and Photos online for the world to see. The best part, its protected by international law, we can't do anything about it. The only saving grace is that you can go there and remove yours via the opt-out link.

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It wasn't that long ago that I wrote about our friend Screech aka Dustin Diamond. He was trying to sell T-Shirts to save his house. Well, it looks like he has a new plan.

Everyone who remembers Diamond as a lovable putz is in for a shock once they see a 40-minute video in which he engages in a kinky three-way with two women. Lucky bastard! ;)

I can't get too graphic here, but word is that the action includes some bodily functions and an act known as a "Dirty Sanchez."

Just when you think you have seen everything in this business mankind has raised the bar another notch. With Screech, I'm gonna say lowered it.

So if you have a hungry appetite for nerd porn, I guess you should look this up. Personally, I'll pass.

I have finally decided to give Vonage a try. I've been nuts about VoIP since it was first introduced years ago. I truly believe it is the future of all telephony and in the next few years, as broadband speeds increase, you'll see mass adoption. In fact, most people don't realize it, but almost all voice traffic over national carrier networks get put onto an IP/Ethernet backbone in the form of H.323. You're making a VoIP phone call and you don't even know it.

VoIP to the home is simply the next logical step. VoIP will add incredible features to telephony that aren't possible today. Think about your instant messenger software. AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. You're chatting with your buddy and decide to send him a picture, a drawing, video or a link to a website. VoIP will bring all of these same features to your telephone. Imagine talking to grandma and you decide to send her a picture of junior. Its coming! I also believe that VoIP will finally be the transport that makes Video calls a reality. Its coming. Get ready!

With all of this in mind, and being that technology is my career, it only makes sense for me to get on this bandwagon now. Once I've tested and am happy that Vonage will provide good service I plan to drop my land-line POTS from Verizon. I have Verizon business FIOS with 15 Mb/s so bandwidth should never be an issue for me. I also plan on experimenting with Asterisk PBX. A home PBX would be pretty cool.

For now, during my trial period, I only have one phone in the house connected to Vonage. When I am home, I have the POTS line forwarded to Vonage and I make all of my outgoing calls on the Vonage line. So far, it works just as well as my regular POTS line. I haven't noticed any choppiness or lag in the communications. Keep in mind, I have gobs of bandwidth available. If I were running on DSL with 128Kb/s upstream it might not be so good. Especially since I am running a 90 Kb/s stream to Vonage (Vonage allows you to pick three voice quality options to encode your calls: 30, 50 or 90 Kb/s. 30 Kb/s is similar to a cell phone, 50 a standard land-line and 90 is VoIP only - you have to call another VoIP number to hear the difference.) I only picked 90 Kb/s since I have plenty of bandwidth to spare.

I'll post more about this as time goes on..

I have finally decided to give Vonage a try. I've been nuts about VoIP since it was first introduced years ago. I truly believe it is the future of all telephony and in the next few years, as broadband speeds increase, you'll see mass adoption. In fact, most people don't realize it, but almost all voice traffic over national carrier networks get put onto an IP/Ethernet backbone in the form of H.323. You're making a VoIP phone call and you don't even know it.

VoIP to the home is simply the next logical step. VoIP will add incredible features to telephony that aren't possible today. Think about your instant messenger software. AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. You're chatting with your buddy and decide to send him a picture, a drawing, video or a link to a website. VoIP will bring all of these same features to your telephone. Imagine talking to grandma and you decide to send her a picture of junior. Its coming! I also believe that VoIP will finally be the transport that makes Video calls a reality. Its coming. Get ready!

With all of this in mind, and being that technology is my career, it only makes sense for me to get on this bandwagon now. Once I've tested and am happy that Vonage will provide good service I plan to drop my land-line POTS from Verizon. I have Verizon business FIOS with 15 Mb/s so bandwidth should never be an issue for me. I also plan on experimenting with Asterisk PBX. A home PBX would be pretty cool.

For now, during my trial period, I only have one phone in the house connected to Vonage. When I am home, I have the POTS line forwarded to Vonage and I make all of my outgoing calls on the Vonage line. So far, it works just as well as my regular POTS line. I haven't noticed any choppiness or lag in the communications. Keep in mind, I have gobs of bandwidth available. If I were running on DSL with 128Kb/s upstream it might not be so good. Especially since I am running a 90 Kb/s stream to Vonage (Vonage allows you to pick three voice quality options to encode your calls: 30, 50 or 90 Kb/s. 30 Kb/s is similar to a cell phone, 50 a standard land-line and 90 is VoIP only - you have to call another VoIP number to hear the difference.) I only picked 90 Kb/s since I have plenty of bandwidth to spare.

I'll post more about this as time goes on..

I have finally decided to give Vonage a try. I've been nuts about VoIP since it was first introduced years ago. I truly believe it is the future of all telephony and in the next few years, as broadband speeds increase, you'll see mass adoption. In fact, most people don't realize it, but almost all voice traffic over national carrier networks get put onto an IP/Ethernet backbone in the form of H.323. You're making a VoIP phone call and you don't even know it.

VoIP to the home is simply the next logical step. VoIP will add incredible features to telephony that aren't possible today. Think about your instant messenger software. AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. You're chatting with your buddy and decide to send him a picture, a drawing, video or a link to a website. VoIP will bring all of these same features to your telephone. Imagine talking to grandma and you decide to send her a picture of junior. Its coming! I also believe that VoIP will finally be the transport that makes Video calls a reality. Its coming. Get ready!

With all of this in mind, and being that technology is my career, it only makes sense for me to get on this bandwagon now. Once I've tested and am happy that Vonage will provide good service I plan to drop my land-line POTS from Verizon. I have Verizon business FIOS with 15 Mb/s so bandwidth should never be an issue for me. I also plan on experimenting with Asterisk PBX. A home PBX would be pretty cool.

For now, during my trial period, I only have one phone in the house connected to Vonage. When I am home, I have the POTS line forwarded to Vonage and I make all of my outgoing calls on the Vonage line. So far, it works just as well as my regular POTS line. I haven't noticed any choppiness or lag in the communications. Keep in mind, I have gobs of bandwidth available. If I were running on DSL with 128Kb/s upstream it might not be so good. Especially since I am running a 90 Kb/s stream to Vonage (Vonage allows you to pick three voice quality options to encode your calls: 30, 50 or 90 Kb/s. 30 Kb/s is similar to a cell phone, 50 a standard land-line and 90 is VoIP only - you have to call another VoIP number to hear the difference.) I only picked 90 Kb/s since I have plenty of bandwidth to spare.

I'll post more about this as time goes on.