One of our readers recently forwarded me this announcement from AT&T – apparently Operator Services and Directory Assistance will no longer be available on their U-verse voice lines – starting January 1, 2023. Instead, they advice that “Addresses and numbers can still be located using online services, such as internet search engines, including Google®, Bing®,… Continue Reading
Are you cynical, curious, hopeful or skeptical?
I’ve been thinking a lot about mindset recently. In particular, trying to figure out what character attributes are helpful for someone in a technical role. So let me start by asking you, personally – which of the following attributes would you use to describe yourself? What about your team mates? Cynical Curious Hopeful Skeptical I’m… Continue Reading
The FCC is reading your robocall mitigation plans – and is unhappy
On Monday this week (October 3, 2022), the FCC announced plans to remove 7 companies from the robocall mitigation database for non-compliance – unless they get their act together in the next 14 days. Which service providers? Per the order, the following 7 service providers received a notice from the FCC: Akabis Cloud4 Global UC… Continue Reading
NASA saves the Earth! – In a maintenance window
This evening (Monday, September 26, 2022) at 7:14pm EDT, the NASA DART spacecraft will intentionally crash into an asteroid named Dimorphos – hoping to change it’s course, thus saving the Earth from destruction! Ok, maybe that’s a slight exaggeration. You see, Dimorphos is not actually on course to hit the Earth, and even if it… Continue Reading
Easy or Scalable? Three Generations of Metaswitch Translations Logic
I hate gardening. It’s hard physical work, I’m not very good at it, and I don’t really care about plants or flowers – so there’s not really much reward for all the labor. However, when we lived in Cleveland, my wife allocated part of the front yard for tomato plants – and I was amazed… Continue Reading
A Gang of Driverless Cars Blocks Traffic
I recently came across this post on Reddit, where someone had come across a group of about a dozen driverless cars all stopped in the middle of the same city block, effectively preventing any traffic from using that street. Obviously, any time a group of artificially intelligent beings decide to gather together in one place,… Continue Reading