One of my pet peeves in the professional world is when people send emails with the body empty and the entire message in the subject line. In my experience, I have isolated a few different characteristics of many (not all) people who exhibit this behavior. Technologically Antiquated Arogant Narcissistic Undoubtedly, there are more than just […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Web Fax for Asterisk
I discovered a web fax solution for Asterisk that works quite well. First, let’s install ghostscript and spandsp. For a Ubuntu or Debian, you can type: sudo apt-get install ghostscript sudo apt-get install libspandsp-dev If you compiled Asterisk by source, you can access the configuration dialog by typing: make menuconfig Now you need to enable […]
Complex Laws
Every once in a while I read about how the tax code needs to be rewritten and how it should be simplified. When I hear it, I smile first, but then I sigh. I sigh because the act of simplifying something that is complex is, in itself, a complex task. Therefore, saying that we […]
Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
So, I just made that up. But I truly believe that this is becoming an epidemic due in no small part to the heads-down “connected” culture that we are all a part of today. There is no substitute for a face-to-face conversation, where there are real consequences for bad behavior, innuendos, or blatant and […]
Politics and Hockey
Last night I had a dream that the republicans and democrats were backing hockey teams. The republicans were backing the capitols, and the democrats were backing the devil’s. Whoever scored the first goal wins, but there was one caveat — both teams needed to touch the puck before anyone could score. The game started and […]