April, 25, 2001 archives

the baby bells want to provide long-distance data traffic, and not have to open up their local networks. hopefully rep. markey, whose been at this whole telecommunications legislation thing for a very long time, will prevail in not letting the baby bells run rampant over consumers. (can anyone explain to me why caller id costs over $6 a month?)

if oleo is short for oleomargarine, how come most people call it margarine? oleo just sounds so much cooler. it is referred to as the very formal oleomargarine in the us code. oh well, as long as you don't call it butter.