Alec Saunders SquawkBox

This is really too funny not to pass along. Colbert is hilarious.

Over on the Asterisk VoIP News blog, Dal has posted directions on how to get Asterisk Business Edition working properly on Fedora Core.  It’s valuable stuff, as so many Linux distributions are just a little different.  We should expect to see more of these kinds of postings as Asterisk hits more mainstream markets.  The real solution, of course, is the drop it in and go CD model pioneered by TrixBox and adopted by AsteriskNow more recently.  You can see how easy this is in the following video Mark Spenser recorded showing the AsteriskNow setup

 

Howard and I took the opportunity afforded by our Air Canada North American unlimited passes to make a trip to Melville NY, yesterday, and debut iotum Talk-Now to the Pulver Team.  Suffice it to say that an hour or two of quality time with Jeff, Scott, Carl and Jonathan is time well spent. 

I can safely say that there was some excitement about what we’ve built.  And, as always, there was an animated discussion that began “could you do this?”.  One of the things we learned was that the Pulver team all carry second cellular phones, in addition to their Blackberries.  The cellular coverage from their Blackberry provider is simply not reliable enough, so it has become a pure data device.  This sparked an animated discussion about whether we could use the features of Talk-Now to track availability, while making the actual calls from another device.  Naturally, you can, but the experience is less integrated.  We’ll be putting some thought into how to make this a better experience.

I shot this photo with my Blackberry Pearl yesterday while Jeff was tapping out his blog entry about our visit.  Did you know he writes his blog entries in manual HTML?  Wow.  For someone as prolific a blogger as Jeff that’s totally surprising.  I had to sharpen the photo quite a bit, because the Pearl’s software focused the picture on the foreground, rather than the Jeff.  C’est la vie.  The camera is probably one of the weaker parts of the Pearl package.