Blue Sky On Mars

Thoughts on Building Software Products
May 13, 2005

The $80 router/PBX

by Kevin Dangoor

Though I have yet to install anything unusual on my Linksys WRT54G, I got that particular model specifically because I knew you could install other stuff if you wanted to. Some folks have figured out how to turn this little router (I think I only paid $50 for mine) into a PBX! Yes, you can have your very own configurable telephone system for very little cash.

May 13, 2005

US press picks up on British memo

by Kevin Dangoor

A high-level British memo claiming that “intelligence and facts were being fixed” to support the Iraq war in mid-2002 has reached the mainstream US press. CNN has the story. Of course, as pointed out in CNN’s article, this had been claimed before. Do people still actually believe that the charges of an Iraqi threat were anything other than lies?