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Saturday, April 14, 2007
Vonage
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Some links:
Vonage forums – Not officially connected with Vonage, but an excellent source of information.
Home wiring and installation instructions.
I ordered Vonage via their web site on 02/18/07 and got email messages verify that the account was active and including a virtual phone number to use temporarily for setup and installation, etc., within an hour or so. Also that same day I got an email message stating that the LNP (local number portability – porting my office phone number from Verizon to Vonage) process had started.
My plan was to move my office phone line to Vonage while keeping my home number with Verizon. Being in hurricane country, having one hard wired land line that might continue working even when the cable service and power have failed just seems the safer approach to me.
Copyright myths
Monday, February 5, 2007
Brad Templeton’s 10 big copyright myths. Think you can just use other people’s stuff? Think you know what’s in the public domain? Better read this post.
MediaWiki
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
MediaWiki is a free software wiki package originally written for Wikipedia. It is now used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this very website, the home of MediaWiki.
activeCollab
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
activeCollab is an easy to use, web based, open source collaboration and project management tool.
Weasel words
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Weasel word – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – “A weasel word is a word that is intended to, or has the effect of, softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement, or avoids forming a clear position on a particular issue.”
Some examples in the Wikipedia entry are:
- “People say…” (Who are the people who say what?)
- “It turns out that…”
- “Rumour has it that she has left him.” (Where was this rumour published or spread?)
From the Wikipedia’s Manual of Style: Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words.
I think a general form of “weaseiling” is speaking such that every sentence is in the form of a question. If you want to make a statement, do so; if you want ask a question, ask.
Michael Brown’s list of weasel words – not quite in line with the Wikipedia definition, but a good list of “… some of the linguistic atrocities I and other reporters have seen in press releases and news reports over the years.”