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Thursday, September 16, 2004

Mr. Froy goes to London....
(posted at 09:12PM BST)

I enjoyed a nice day out in Whitehall today, courtesy of Linkage Community Trust.

The event ?

A rather techie sounding conference hosted by UKERNA appropriately titled 'UKERNA Voice over IP Discussion Day'.

All in all, the only good thing about the day was meeting a few (and I mean few!) individuals who are intelligent enough to consider the use of Asterisk within their organizations rather than giving insane amounts of cash to Cisco for their proprietary and lesser-featured Call Manager product.

I was urged by a couple of UKERNA guys to seriously consider presenting a talk on Asterisk at the next JANET Networkshop in 2005.

Given that no mention of OSS alternatives to proprietary telephony solutions was made today, I believe that I will be making that presentation after all... it will certainly be interesting to see how many times I can drop the words 'Linux' and 'Asterisk' into a presentation at an event which will most likely be sponsored by Cisco :-p

Monday, September 13, 2004

All men are bastards....
(posted at 10:10PM BST)

Guess I had a little too much to drink on Saturday night *hic*

I believe that it may have had something to do with the teensy fact that I haven't had a vomit-inducing amount to drink since last New Years' Eve.

Sadly, I am so out of practice I couldn't even finish off the obligatory late-night Doner Kebab(tm) from the ever-so-dodgy high-street restaurant :-)

I guess I'm lucky that I didn't have a nasty hangover in the morning so I suppose I should be grateful of that.

The most defining moment of the night was being told by one of my 'wimmin (they were mine because I saw 'em first, hehehe!) that 'All men are bastards!'.

In response, I can only repeat what I say to all birds chicks tarts women:

"Really ?"

I could count on one hand the total number of women who have been total and utter bitches to me but I would never say something like 'all women are bitches' as that would be lumping the billions of women on the planet in with the pitiful few that truly deserved the title.

So... that said... when are you bitches ready for another piss-up ;-)

 
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