Tim Bray Gets VoIP

Just reading ongoing and Tim Bray’s experience with Vonage…. sounds good even with a hiccup or two. I am still considering VOIP — keep thinking Vonage is the way to go and perhaps I won’t have the hook-up issue he had with DSL with my cable connection….

It occurs to me that when someone on a cellphone calls my AccessLine and it gets routed to the Vonage and we have a talk, there is a lot of technology sloshing around, and the proportion of it that I understand is soberingly small. It is just painfully obvious that this is the future. [ongoing]

Mark Cuban’s HDTV Solution

I do have a solution for the FCC for the transition to HD and getting back the TV broadcast spectrum that is cheaper, far simpler, and would accelerate the give back faster then anything so far proposed, and I’m sure no one has thought of it. [Blog Maverick]

overwhelmed by comment spam?

Craig over at Gearbits continues to get pummeled by comment spam… Craig have you tried MT-Blacklist? unless you upgrade to MT3 and use Typekey or just turn comments off and go with trackbacks and Technorati, this is going to continue… damn spammers!

I’ve been very successful at blocking spam comments in WordPress, btw. It’s not a problem at all there based on some settings in the prefs…There’s even a blacklist plugin, though I have not found that to be necessary just yet.