Mother's Day Thoughts and Teach her Some Cool New VoIP Service

Can I change the words to a song? First, buy Bette Midler, so people won't say I am plagiarizing or copying something I shouldn't.

Second, I miss my mother, who like me needed a keyfinder. She physically left me one year after my only son was born. She was always so proud of me and let me know it. She pushed me incessantly. On the other hand, she showed me the way to kindness, compassion, and understanding. She surrounded herself with what others would call the "no-bodies," "nerds," "outcasts." When I think of how lovely and inspiring she was, I want to cry with sadness of missing her and the joy of remembering her. I have another mother now, Millie. Hugs, Millie!!! She's just as beautiful.

This song reminds me of the woman who birthed me in 1959, but I changed the words a bit and left some out that don't fit her. Mom, I won't ever forget you.

It must have been cold there in everyone's shadow,


but you always had sunshine in your face.

You were content to let us all shine, that was your way.

You always walked beside us all, trying to pull us forward.



So we were the ones who got all the glory,

while you were the one with all the guts.

A beautiful face without a care for yourself.

A beautiful smile to hide all that pain.



Did you ever know that you're our hero,

and everything we wish we could be?

We can fly higher than an avatar,

for you were and are the wind beneath our egos.



It might seem that we've forgotten,

but we've got it tucked here inside our hearts.

We want you to know we know the truth, yeah.

We would be idiots without you.



Did you ever know that you're our hero... still?

You're everything we wish we could be.

We could fly higher than an avatar,

because you are the wind beneath our egos.

(Mother's Day is May 9, 2010. Call Mom. Use your favorite voIP service. Even better, show her how to use some cool voIP service. Get her a virtual phone line or number. Write a story about her.)

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Interview with Joel Driver, Asterisk Developer and Entrepreneur

Joel Driver first started playing with VoIP in 1995. Today he runs one of the web's most popular call forwarding service at myDivert.com. Listen to our discussion on the DIDX podcasts.

myDivert is a hot spot for startup entrepreneurs who need a local presence in as many as 60+ countries. myDivert makes it easy for its customers to start receiving phone calls from those who are most important to them. Their business partners, potential and current customers, friends and family will make a local call that myDivert's solution will route to where its customers has chosen to forward to ... SIP, IAX2 or a cell phone or landline phone.

Joel shares his experience with a history of his business ventures, what he is doing now that he is most excited about, websites he uses the most, how he as a service provider and experienced Asterisk developer has helped DIDX to improve, and advice he gives to other service providers or carriers who want to use DIDX to buy or sell phonenumbers.

Joel of myDivert.com is a good example of quick understanding of SEM (search engine marketing) and makes good use of tools such as Facebook, blogs, Twitter and Youtube. You can find Joel to business with and learn from by "googling" "buy DID number" or visit http://www.mydivert.com


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Wholesale Issue Regarding End-User Details

We sleep, wake up, leave our bed, get ready for work and use some transportation to work (walk, bike, motorcycle, drive car, take bus...). We do this even though we know there is a chance that we can come into contact with danger and get hurt or even killed. We take chances every second of our lives. I'm talking about you and me.

In my daily work with Super Technologies, Inc. we work with thousands of wholesale telephony companies from many parts of the earth. They in turn serve millions of end-users from their local area and around the globe.

Take didx.net for example. Several hundred sell direct inward dialing to make up the 17 million phone numbers from 55 countries available for sale on DIDX to the 10,000 or so who buy. The seller also has wholesale customers it sells directly to outside of DIDX.

My question is... does the wholesale direct inward dialing phone number seller require its wholesale telephony company buyers to give them complete end-user information for every end-user it resells to? No. Of course not.

If there is a problem regarding possible criminal use of the phone number by an end-user who is the customer of the wholesale DID buyer who is a customer of the wholesale DID seller...

The wholesale DID buyer will gather the information responding to any subpoena or similar government request for its vendor the wholesale DID seller.

What I am saying here are a few things:
1. A tiny tiny percentage of end-users use phone number in a criminal manner, but that doesn't mean we quit selling phone numbers. A tiny tiny percentage of the food I eat makes me sick, but that doesn't mean I quit eating food.

2. If there is evidence that shows a phone number may be used in a criminal manner, authorities normally send a subpoena requiring contact information and sometimes CDR, etc. of the end-user.

Super Technologies, Inc. does have a potential abuse reporting process listed at http://kb.didx.net/tiki-index.php?page=Abuse. We have automated the ability to upload the subpoena or government inquiry via the DIDX dashboard of each www.didx.net wholesale telephony member.