Dorian In the World

My business partner and I went to LA and San Diego this week to look at a few different companies to acquire and put in to the MetroBridge family.

YVR was a mess. The normally easy to transit, verging on calm airport was transformed in to the longest line I have personally ever witnessed at an airport. No one was complaining much...it was mostly stunned looks and bewilderment in the thousand deep crowd.

The terrorists? They succeeded. Whether they were really ever going to blow up planes in mid-air is almost irrelevant. The terrorists (or extremists, or whatever you personally want to call them) managed to push up the terror alert status to the maximum (since it has come off) in both the USA and Britain.

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Four months ago I purchased a Slingbox from Amazon (we did not yet have them available in Canadian retail stores). Turns out it is a fascinating piece of technology, yet a remarkably simple concept.

The small box takes input from your analog or digital cable box, compresses the stream as it is received and then makes it available via the internet via your home broadband connection. Even even has IR emitters for controlling hundreds of types of cable boxes, allowing you to change channels, etc.

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Well WiNOG 2006 seems to have been a terrific success. A big thanks goes out to Charles and the CWLab team for putting this industry event on each year. I cannot wait to see this conference in ten years time!

Personally I had some great discussions with many individuals that no doubt have spurred me to think (even more) about our industry and the global impact it is having and going to have on communications and information flow.

I was particularly excited chatting with Tony from CWLab. I told him about our equipment woes and what a strange time it is for our industry.

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