Level 3 Communications Blog
Resistance to change is natural. We all have that yearning for the familiar and distrust of the unknown. The changes we resist are a function of our beliefs, knowledge andassumptions. What we resist (and how strongly) often varies based on our level of familiarity with the subject of the change. I am reminded of a [...]
Ok so maybe I won’t qualify for the 86th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee next year. This year’s winner Snigdha Nandipati won by correctly spelling ‘guetapens’. Seriously, guetapens? Where did they come up with that one? Not that I’m afraid of the occasional obscure term. At my house when we play Scrabble, words like Ethernet, [...]
Kodak’s bankruptcy got me thinking: In these final years of circuit-switched telephone service, are there some lessons we can learn from the world of film? What lessons can the world of photography hold for telephony? If you think about it, plain old telephone service (POTS as we acronym-obsessed telecom folk call it) is not all that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
