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Sometimes the Cisco OIP program can be a pain in the ass!

Another partner registers the deal. You are awarded the business, taking less margin than the behemoth vendor in town, to get the deal. Now you’d like to increase your margins and you aren’t able to get the best pricing because behemoth vendor has protected pricing.

Kinda makes for an unfair advantage, and prohibits Cisco’s other partners from growing their business. Keeping the big guy in town big and the small guys small.

My suggestion, OIP Rebate program. When the deal is registered by someone else, but I am awarded the business. I should get that OIP discount as a rebate check.

Come on Cisco! Help your partners grow!

Good article over at Network World about Patents Microsoft has claimed to hold. I’ve blogged about the silliness of patents like this in the past. People at the patent offices must be not tech savvy. I would NEVER have let such vague patents be allowed through.

Check some of them out: The Microsoft/Android war: Which patents are at stake?

In my dream she was on the opposite side of a large gravel parking lot.

I could see her standing there. Her hair soft and shining in the sun. She smiled so big while she spoke to someone else, her aura radiated across that parking lot, I felt it in my heart, even if that smile wasn’t for me, it felt like home. I was drawn to her, like a magnetic field, wanting to be closer I began walking, my tears dripping from my cheeks like raindrops from a magnolia leaf. I slipped and fell on the gravel, my leg throbbed with pain. Get up, you can make it, I tell myself. I start again, walking towards her, the distance is increasing. I slip again, hitting the gravel hard. Dirt is on my face now, mixing with tears, and stinging my broken skin. Dust from my fall fills my mouth as I breath in. I look up, she hasn’t changed. She doesn’t even see me. How can she not see me? I call her name and cough as I exhale the earth. She is amazing, laughing and glowing, living her life without me. The distance in that parking lot is growing, was I getting smaller? I dig my fingernails into the dirt to pull myself forward. If I can get closer, maybe she’ll hear me, or see me. She once cared about me so much, if she only saw me here, trying to get to her, maybe she’d feel something again. I just want her to hold me again and tell me everything is alright. I look up from the dirt and she’s gone. I look around the empty lot. I scream her name.

I’m awake. It was just another dream. Another day to get through… in exile.

Just a random thought here:

If we are talking SIP to one another, and you’re not going to complete my call…

Please oh please come back with a 503, not “200 OK”!

And thanks for making me setup static routes for area codes you wont return 503 on too.

No, thats not a typo. Check out this article over at Stogie Guys

Stogie Alert: Stop the 20,000% Cigar Tax Increase

It’s been raining for months.

We get one day of sunshine and the rain comes back.

When will it end!!

Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
Original Release Date: December 29, 1998

All: radio stations, satellite radio, grocery stores, elevator music selectors… DIE!

I am sooo tired of hearing this song, its been almost 10 years, I swear this song gets played WAY too often.. I hear it everywhere, 5+ times a week.. it makes me vomitous.. seriously. STOP PLAYING IT!

/groan

I’m so sick of roadrunner. Nothing ever gets fixed. I’ve had 6-50% packet loss for almost two months now. Today my bandwidth is that of a dial-up modem. This is awful. Please, some other company offer better service to my house!

Gas has more than doubled in the last ten years.. I wonder what other industry has seen such a price increase?