April 2008
38 posts
T-Mobile rolling out 3G tomorrow in New York -... →
And this coming just weeks after I gave up T-Mobile for AT&T :-)
Edit: it’s 3G for voice only, not data. Even cell phone geeks like me don’t care about that. At all.
“Original Exception:
Error Message: Filter [InsiteSessionFilter]: could not be...”
– I tried to access my auto insurance policy information at Geico.com. This is Geico’s response. Not exactly the information I wanted, honestly.
Pride comes before a tumble - Los Angeles Times →
(via david)
“If you punched your ballot for “uncommitted” in Michigan’s...”
– Michigan is becoming Clinton’s secret weapon
Cassie at Bronx Botanical Garden →
A Nerdy Proposal Story →
My friends are nerdy (like me), but this one tops them all. No one I know wrote (or even could have written) a home-brew Nintendo DS game to deliver the question.
Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release... →
Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business
Car drive to Maryland: Painful
During a particularly bad point in traffic, Nicole said, a propos of nothing, “If I’d never met you, I wouldn’t be in this car right now.”
An hour later, she muttered “I’m back here just thinking of things I could throw at you.”
Tomorrow, we get to do the drive again, in reverse. Yay!
Dating when you’re a short guy - MSN Dating &... →
I can only repeat Nicole’s insightful commentary on this one: “Why is ‘date short women’ not on this list?”
Tickle Me, somewhere
The apartment is a mess. Evidence: every time I take out a sweater or sweatshirt, I activate a Tickle-Me-Elmo that is buried somewhere nearby. Where is it? Why does it think I am tickling it? Why don’t I just find it and put it somewhere else?
THINK / Musings / beta working →
John Borthwick has written up an interesting discussion of Betaworks and what binds its pieces
What goes where?
Now that I’ve been toying with Twitter for a couple days, I’m starting to wonder — what goes on Twitter, and what on Tumblr? (Never mind the question of how Twitter should relate to my Facebook status messages.) Fortunately, I’m confident that absolutely no one is reading any of them, so it is purely an academic inquiry.
Barbie's downfall →
Err, I can’t try to do justice to this in prose. Click through if you dare.
Ferrets have many talents →
I had been wondering how Verizon was going to get the FiOS fiber-optic cables into old Manhattan apartment buildings like mine. Here’s a possible answer: “rats and ferrets have been taught to pull fibre in situations where normal technologies do not work.” Excellent! Put those rodents to work.
Names That Match Forge a Bond on the Internet -... →
I used to work pretty hard to keep myself off of Google search results — I set the robots.txt on my blog to keep search engines out, I didn’t use my full name in any posts elsewhere, etc. I liked the feeling of privacy that came from being on page 2 (or later) in Google.
Lately, though, I’ve started to tip the other way — being more comfortable appearing in search...
F2C: Freedom to Connect →
(Where I am today)