Jordan gets home-grown consumer VoIP service
The News Review:
- Jordan gets home-grown consumer VoIP service
- When It All Comes Down EP
- The Garden Plot
Jordan gets home-grown consumer VoIP service
ITP.net – Aug 30, 2005
There are currently 18,000 ADSL subscribers in Jordan, with ADSL coverage extending to 95% of areas. Subscribers will have their ADSL modems upgraded to a Livebox modem, which will permit the addition of an IP-based telephone line, which comes with telephone and completely new number. This phone can then be used to call landline and mobile numbers, at home and abroad. In addition, a user can make a VoIP call whilst a family member or friend surfs the internet using the attached PC. Three bundled tariffs are available, offering ADSL subscribers what Jordan Telecom reckons will be monthly savings of up to 20% on fixed to mobile calls. Two of the tariffs are aimed at for residential users and one for small and medium enterprises, with internet speeds of either 512Kbps or 1024Kbps on offer.
When It All Comes Down EP
Aversion – Aug 30, 2005
Looking around at the band’s contemporaries, it’s easy to realize that the latter explanation holds more truth. The six songs on this EP support the theory of pop-cultural relativity. While not nearly as embarrassing as recent records by most of its Drive Thru contemporaries, that doesn’t mean the band’s ultra-melodic, mall-punk floof is anything but lightweight pop. Any praise lavished upon it would be the sort of thing usually reserved for statisticians, semanticists, politicians and others well versed in massaging and spin-doctoring facts to suit their purpose…
Looking around at the band’s contemporaries, it’s easy to realize that the latter explanation holds more truth. The six songs on this EP support the theory of pop-cultural relativity. While not nearly as embarrassing as recent records by most of its Drive Thru contemporaries, that doesn’t mean the band’s ultra-melodic, mall-punk floof is anything but lightweight pop. Any praise lavished upon it would be the sort of thing usually reserved for statisticians, semanticists, politicians and others well versed in massaging and spin-doctoring facts to suit their purpose. You can’t blame Home Grown for pop-punk’s overexposure over the past six years. Then again, you have to wonder what it could think that When It All Comes Down could possibly bring to the pop-punk party. “What Would I Do Now” takes a chopped-up mix of overlapping vocals learned from The Get Up Kids rather than the Beach Boys, warm-fuzzy guitars and enough bubblegum to choke an ox.
The Garden Plot
Washington Post – Aug 30, 2005
Pot them up in May. _______________________Not the Corn Belt!: Adrian – I’m a first time corn grower who got a great (looking) crop but for some reason the taste is lacking. I’ve read about how great home grown corn is, but most of the ears I’ve grown have tasted worst (or more tasteless) than supermarket corn. I grew Silver Queen seeds and the plants looked great to me. Any thoughts as to my problem? PS – I’m in Northern VA. (Fauquier County)Adrian Higgins: Perhaps you are harvesting too late.