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Vonage Offering USB Memory Stick Phone

Vonage Offering USB Memory Stick Phone: We're existing Vonage customers, and this is an interesting product for us; it might make it so we don't have to take our routers with us on extended stays away from the office.

"The V-phone, which is preloaded with software and therefore requires no computer set-up, will cost $39.99 plus a $9.00 activation fee, and comes with an earpiece. Customers would also need to sign up for calling time.
Vonage is offering business users unlimited calls for $34.99 a month, and a $24.99 unlimited plan for residential customers. It also offers a 500-minute plan for $14.99.
'Most employees do a lot of work on the road and at home,' Citron said. 'The only way they do that is racking up large phone bills.'
Citron said he did not expect the latest device to replace other Vonage products or cell phones.
But companies could eventually use it instead of their current phone networks once workers grew accustomed to using headsets and dialing from keyboards rather than traditional phones, he said. "

Welcome to the Society, and check your critical powers at the door

I have been watching this mutual-admiration society flourish, that heavenly fellowship of journalists that perish, or at least swoon at the presence of each other, and doing so with some degree of amusement--this has all the earmarks of the patter you hear on the Academy Awards and that ilk. You don't want to miss this exchange:

Connie, stroking.

John, gushing.

AT&T free!

Today is our first day of not receiving email through our old attglobal.net addresses--AT&T Internet Business Services, which started out in the early '90s as IBM Advantis, in the hotbed of Tennessee's tech corridor.

What's amazing to me is the dearth of spam, suddenly, now that I've jettisoned email addresses we've had for about 12 years. I used to get 200-400 a day, and now, more than 10 hours into today, I have had one. I have conflicting emotions, sitting alone in the silence, realizing I was in an abusive relationship.

Hybrids Are Hot - MSN Autos

Hybrids Are Hot - MSN Autos--I didn't know so much was already available in hybrid models and styles. It makes it harder and harder to hold out for that H3 hybrid, Norm.

Gasoline-Electric Hybrids

On sale now:
Honda Insight
Toyota Prius
Honda Civic Hybrid
Honda Accord Hybrid
Ford Escape Hybrid
Lexus RX 400h
Toyota Highlander Hybrid
Mercury Mariner Hybrid
Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid
GMC Sierra Hybrid

Due in calendar 2006:
Saturn Vue Hybrid
Lexus GS 450h
Nissan Altima Hybrid
Toyota Camry Hybrid

Due in calendar 2007:
Mazda Tribute Hybrid
Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid
Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid
GMC Yukon hybrid

Due in calendar 2008:
Dodge Durango hybrid
Ford Fusion Hybrid
Mercury Milan Hybrid
New Chevrolet and GMC hybrid full-size pickups* *Specific models with new, upgraded hybrid technology have not been announced.

Due by calendar 2010:
Porsche Cayenne hybrid

Source: Automakers

CMHA flouts 1969 law at 4016 Denison

Here's something I found in the Cleveland code, dating back to 1969; it appears that CMHA is not at all in compliance at 4016 Denison, which has over 20 suites and became a CMHA property back in the 1980s. Why are they exempt?

371.09 Requirements for Janitor, Custodian or Agent

(a) In any multiple dwelling structure in which the owner thereof does not reside, there shall be designated by the owner, a janitor, custodian, agent or other responsible person who shall reside in the structure and have charge of the same. However, where there exist two or more such dwelling structures on one parcel of land or upon two or more contiguous parcels of land, one janitor, custodian or agent residing in any one of the dwelling structures may serve as janitor, custodian or agent for all of the dwelling structures.
(b) The janitor, custodian or agent shall be available, at reasonable hours, to the Commissioner of Housing and to the tenant of the dwelling unit. A schedule showing the name, location and hours the janitor, custodian or agent is available shall be posted conspicuously at the main entrance of such structure.
(c) The janitor, custodian or agent shall maintain the common areas in a safe and sanitary manner. (Ord. No. 2267-68. Passed 2-17-69, eff. 2-29-69)

Section 363.09 Multiple Dwelling

"Multiple dwelling" means a dwelling structure occupied for residence purposes by more than two families, or by individuals living in a rooming occupancy as defined herein, or by both. (Ord. No. 2409-59. Passed 4-4-60, eff. 4-6-60)

If I were a Rich Man... - word of mouth

If I were a Rich Man... - word of mouth--Scott finally tells us what informs his actions (WWTLRD?) and plugs Bloggapalooza in marvelous detail. Go there.

who's aggregating here at Planet NEO?

Planet NEO--Pho wants to know: What it is?

Tax cheat whistleblower program pays few returns - MarketWatch

Tax cheat whistleblower program pays few returns - MarketWatch: "Given that the IRS admits most whistleblowers are indeed part of an 'ex factor' -- spouses, colleagues...people who likely have some axe to grind, the altruism of the act can probably be best described as having nothing to do with good citizenship; it has to do with revenge."--or political dirty tricks, or squelching competition, or keeping principled people in their places. An informant society which guarantees anonymity to the informant-- and rewards informants for placing people in situations where the most financially and emotionally reasonable alternative is to just give in and pay--is just flat wrong. This anonymity needs to go. We need to strip the snitches of their cover, even at the risk of altering the landscape of politics as we know it today.

'Timothy Leary: A Biography,' by Robert Greenfield - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times

'Timothy Leary: A Biography,' by Robert Greenfield - The New York Times Book Review - New York Times: "Nearly every page is riveting in 'Timothy Leary,' which unfolds like the great novel Sinclair Lewis might have written had he lived to the age of 120....the book provides a crash course in several aspects of 60's culture: its often gaseous rhetoric, its reliance on mahatmas and soothsayers, its endless bail-fund benefits and sometimes dubious appeals to conscience, its thriving population of informers, its contribution to the well-being of lawyers, its candyland expectations and obstinate denials of reality, its fatal avoidance of critical thinking, its squalid death by its own hand. That still leaves many meritorious elements largely outside Leary's sphere: civil rights, the antiwar movement, music and art, the impulse toward communitarianism, to name a few. In part because of Leary, however, ideals and delusions were encouraged to interbreed, their living progeny being avid consumerism and toothless dissent."

Make sure you read the first chapter, here, where I found two factual things I have in common with this other Tim: "There could not have been a family more unlike the outgoing, gregarious, reckless Learys than the quiet and pious Ferris clan from which Tim's mother, Abigail, came. The shining star of the Ferris family was Abigail's maternal uncle, Father Michael Kavanaugh. Born in 1873, he graduated first in his class at Holy Cross".