(credit to Ganesh for noticing the similarity)
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Apple: please fix this very old and annoying bug with browser-embedded QuickTime on x64 versions of Windows.
If only I could get John Mayer to install Vista x64, that would probably do it.
If you thought 20 cent SMS was bad, hold on to your hat.
The next big scam coming out of your favorite cellular telco is tethering. What’s tethering you ask? Tethering is the act of connecting your laptop to your phone in order to get on the net and take advantage of that data plan you already pay for.
Why would anyone bother to give this behavior a name? Well to charge you more money, of course!
But wait, you say, I already shell out for the “unlimited” data plan! Yes but it’s only unlimited within the, uhh, limits of AT&T’s imagination! War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Limited is Unlimited
Perhaps next they’ll sell us the relaxification plan, whereby we are given permission to use our phones while napping in a hammock.
Mark my words: this is going to be a big deal soon. Avoidance of tethering rates will be the number one reason to jailbreak your iPhone. Customers will find enormous surprise bills as AT&T combs their usage logs to track down the rogue tether-ers. Web forum goers will trade tips on flying under the radar.
I must admit that I’m a bit shocked at the lack of uproar over tethering. Apparently consumers are just accepting it. There are even folks eagerly awaiting a tethering option for the iPhone.
Someday my phone will just be a small computer connected to a wireless internet. Someday.
I’ve been a Bank of America customer for years now, starting when I lived in Austin in 2000. Back then I was impressed by their web banking stuff. When I moved up to Seattle, I stuck with BoA and eventually even got my mortgage from them.
Unfortunately, the online banking experience for BoA here in the Seattle area is different and craptacular. For example, there is a 5-10 day lag between adding a payee and actually being able to pay them.
I had heard, months ago, that BoA had a great iPhone web app. Today I discover that it doesn’t work for me or anyone else who selects WA from the dropdown menu.
I can only assume that some years ago BoA swallowed a smaller Northwest regional bank†, and I am suffering the consequences to this day.
† Perhaps this one.
I really like Firefox 3’s AwesomeBar. That is all.
Although I live a mere 5 miles from work, and drive a 4 cylinder car, I’ve decided to start riding the bus. I don’t like paying $50 for a tank of gas. The stuff is simply not worth that much to me. I am apparently not alone.
Anyone with a Microsoft badge (including non-employees like me) can get a free FlexPass courtesy of the company.† This was a major factor in my decision.
Last week I rode the bus 4 times. It was clean, fairly punctual, and essentially empty at the times I rode it. I used Google Map’s Public Transit feature to plan my trip, which generally includes a 10 minute walk.
†This is exceedingly cool. Thank you, Microsoft. I will try to remember this next time I’m about to bash Vista.
Today I say farewell to my 20s. Gifts clockwise from top right: Enter the Zone, iPod Nano, The Beatles: 1967-1970, Mokeskine Reporter (to record CrossFit progress).
Update:
Turns out there was an additional surprise gift. I had just returned from an hour-long massage (oops, another gift I forgot to mention), and was sitting in bed with my MacBook when in bursts my good buddy Rob (who is shirtless and pretending to whip me with his belt). Rob lives in the Bay area and the whole trip was a big secret. What an awesome gift!
Back in the BBS era I used to pretend to be an ANSI artist. Today’s Metafilter post led me to discover Sixteen Colors where, lo and behold, I found my old work:
The first one is a collaboration with my cousin Andy, who did the fonts. The last three are entirely mine. All of them are, of course, ripoffs from Image Comics. Amazing that this stuff has managed to survive since 1995.
(Many thanks to Doug Moore and Sixteen Colors for preserving this stuff.)
I just called the IT help desk for support. They told me to reboot.
It worked.
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