Level 3 Communications Blog
Last weekend, I helped a dear friend change a flat tire. Ninety five degree weather and a half-hour of fumbling to find the hoist shaft (which releases the spare from under the vehicle) conspired to turn a minor inconvenience into a major event. While I contemplated the irony (had this been my car it would [...]
One of my wife and my favorite hobbies is to look at new homes. We always find it fun to see what the latest design trends are and how quickly the features in new homes seem to improve. One of the downsides is the inevitable comparisons that we make to our existing home. After touring [...]
Voice telephony has been around for a hundred years. Like nails scratching a chalkboard, these words tend to put my hair on end. While technically an understatement (voice telephony has actually been around for over a hundred and thirty years), this statement is also misleading. It implies there is nothing new or interesting about voice [...]
Spring has finally arrived (well, at least here in Colorado) and with it the eternal question: will my ten-year-old lawnmower start? This year, I’ve also been wondering whether I could talk my neighbors into pitching-infor a communal lawnmower. The way I see it, the ‘hood should pitch-in to get a nice, top-of-the-line, riding lawnmower (ice-cold [...]
