Was anyone really suprised by Bush’s comments last night? I wasn’t. He’s still under the delusion that Saddam Masterminded 9/11. Amazing how disconnected from reality this administration is. What a shame.

It would appear the the big VoIP bubble may be in the process of bursting. The first casuality? LiveVoIP, who actually started a little late in the game (2003), didn’t have much of a business plan except that it had something to do with Voice Over IP, didn’t gain much traction in the market, had poor management and supplier relations, and then went bust when the money ran out. Sound familiar?

Oh, and in typical dot-com failure fashion, the company’s management puts the balme for its downfall on everything but their poor judgement and execution. Seeing as I know it’s only a matter of time before the links stop working, I’ll quote from the website:

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Evidently, someone at CNN missed a deadline, in a major way. This morning, this retrospective celebrating 10 years of the World Wide Web was front page news on their site. Problem, is, they cite the “birth” of the web as happening in 1994.

Aside from the math problems, I generally have a bone to pick with them about their overglorifying the whole thing:

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RIM is apparently mum about the details behind two outages that occured over the past week with its BlackBerry service.

From various news sources:

Research in Motion Ltd. is again offering few details about an outage — the second one in a week — with its popular BlackBerry service, which delivers e-mail to wireless devices that many users affectionately call CrackBerries.

RIM attributed a June 17 outage lasting nearly four hours to a software upgrade “that did not operate consistent with prior testing.” The Canadian company said a second North American outage Wednesday was because of an unrelated “hardware failure.”

Hmm, a “software upgrade” and a “hardware failure.” I wonder if these incidents have anything to do with the rumoured “nuclear option” that RIM claims to have against NTP, in which it claims to have a workaround to the ongoing patent dispute?

I really didn’t think it was ever possible to suffocate in the trunk of a car, as all the trunks I’ve seen on cars really don’t look all that airtight. Turns out it’s VERY possible, and has actually happened to three young boys.

::shudder::

This would explain why new cars are required to have an emergency release latch in the trunk. And why some safety oganizations are advocating the installation of trunk release mechanisms on older cars.