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Originally uploaded by Kurt Koller
Just spent two weeks on Lake Champlain in Vermont with family and some friends. Good stuff, my mind is totally clear and with the exception of getting a major sunburn on my back one day — playing Puzzle Planet League on the beach and totally losing track of time — I had a great time.
Meanwhile, Sprint disconnected my EVDO service again after they reverted all the account fixes they had done before, and now they’ve credited me for the entire original order price. I’m just worried they’ll terminate me for calling customer service so much, even though it’s been necessary. The weird thing is, when they interrupt your service, you can still use the non-EVDO data connection with no problem.
I was hoping to write a review about how great the Sprint EVDO service was for checking in or doing the inescapable little tasks on my vacation, but alas due to their inept systems and customer service, it has been unusable for the last two weeks. So that’s my review.
I am here. On “poor farm road” in the way north of Vermont. But I have no less than _3_ working internet connections – my T-Mobile Dash is roaming on Cingular giving me EDGE, my Sprint EVDO card isn’t EVDOing but it is supplying a slow connection of some sort, and there’s a random “linksys” wifi signal here. Surprising. That is not my dog.
I thought I was going to write like crazy this last week, but I was mainly tired and groggy and felt like sleeping.
So my Dash is roaming on Cingular. My data is unlimited, and there are no extra fees to use it when roaming unless I’m out of the country, yet whenever I check my mail I get an alert telling me:
Alert
You are currently roaming. Synchronizing may result in additional charges.
I started to look into turning this off in the registry, but I keep getting distracted. Also when I receive an MMS, it alerts me that I have a pending message and then says:
Additional charges may apply while roaming.
New MMS pending
while giving you the option to Download, Postpone, or Reject. Wow, also very annoying. I’m going to pick up on that one tomorrow.
Earlier today I was looking through a random computer magazine which is targeted toward mobile users, and came across this ad:
Is that guy really hiking with a laptop strapped to the front of his body? Is that safe? Or does OSHA mandate that he stop before using the laptop on this contraption? And even if they do, would anyone really do that? I see people eating and talking on the phone and putting on makeup and even reading the paper while driving, so are they really going to behave with this thing?
I know if I was walking on rough terrain and I was using a laptop on a device like this, at some point in the first 30 minutes I would fall down and hurt everything in sight: me, the laptop, the contraption, and some nearby nature. But maybe 60 people in all of the U S of A need these, right?
Which brings me to the next ad I noticed:
Um, really? A firefighter needs an ultra mobile pc so he can do the paperwork on the possible arson he just risked his life to put out? Shouldn’t this guy get to rest for at least the ride back to the firehouse before doing this crap on an actual pc?
I’m all for efficiency, but wtf?
baldblogging, originally uploaded by Kurt Koller.
While at the Apple store in Soho, I could practically feel my hair falling out. Had I had more on the wide angle, I could have captured two additional gentlemen lacking locks just to the right of these men, and NOT fallen down the concrete and glass stairs in the attempt.
Imagine my shock at finding my (and my son’s) likeness on Flickr. So I’m blogging this as part of my new “Embrace and Extend” lifestyle policy.
IMG_3400, originally uploaded by Frank Lantz and taken by him at his apartment.
I know a lot of people think video games are bad for children, but I guess this photo is proof that I’m not one of them.
