Sunday, May 30th, 2010
There was that recent story in the news about the Verizon debt collector threatening to blow up someone’s house. (NOTE: I don’t know about this industry, am not a lawyer, or whether this works in all cases. Use this suggestion at your own risk.) A month ago, I was receiving calls from debt collectors who [...]
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
From The Telegraph: British film archivists yesterday have released footage which apparently shows the world’s first mobile phone being used – in 1922. They…attach a wire from the device onto a fire hydrant before erecting an umbrella which has been converted into an aerial. Read the article and watch the black-and-white silent video. In other [...]
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
A friend of my sister’s tonight had what I think was a Blackberry, or something similar with a keypad and Internet access. As I always wondered how difficult it would look, she told me that it worked on certain major sites like Gmail, Amazon, etc., or sites designed for mobile phones, with it being possibly [...]
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
They say bitrates of MP3 shouldn’t matter after a certain point. And while I feel an unexplainable pain in my ears, I am past the age of hearing the so-called “mosquito ringtone”. So you’d think it wouldn’t matter to a 25-year-old. However, I can “tell” the difference between “–preset extreme” VBR and crap because the [...]
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