Not to mix business and pleasure, but my “hobby” made the news this week. I was in the top 10 on reddit/r/technology and Business Insider wrote a nice article. Besides my career as a telecommunications consultant, I also build robots that talk to telemarketers. I told the story in a recent TEDx talk, but just last week I got a popup saying that I had a virus on my computer and I needed to call Microsoft support. So I called them back 600 times on 20 simultaneous channels. After about 300 calls, they shut off the number. One down…

Anyway, the article is linked below. If you’re inclined, you can go to JollyRogerTelephone.com and subscribe to the service. You will love telemarketer calls when you use my bots.

http://www.businessinsider.com/telecom-guy-uses-bots-to-foil-microsoft-support-scammers-2017-2

I know I owe you all some scripts to parse the output from Avaya phone systems. Sorry I’m so distracted by this Jolly Roger thing…

Roger