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[Day Permalink] Monday, January 24, 2005

[Item Permalink] Updating the CV -- Comment()
Beginning of the year, time to update my CV. I only added my new title (Director of Science support, since Jan 1st, 2005), and a few articles. In the previous update I added a new title, a new child, and a dozen articles, so the new update was a minor one in comparison.


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Where was desktop search when we needed it? "The Gmail experiment has become a lifestyle choice. I still maintain a local Outlook mail store, and it's indexed several ways, but I rarely need to search it." [Tomalak's Realm]


[Item Permalink] 2005 - the year of VoIP? -- Comment()
Google Plans Free VoIP In the UK: "Google may be preparing to offer free Voice Over IP telephone service in the UK. This sounds related to a previous Slashdot article about Google starting to buy dark fiber. So what are they planning? A free service like Skype (computer to computer only) or more along the lines of Lingo or Vonage?"

This may be the year of VoIP. I wrote a 'visions for 2005' article for the MikroPC magazine (issue 1/2005), predicting this should happen. But is the technology ripe yet?