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Ridiculous Mobile Phone Upgrade Charge
Last week John C. Dvorak wrote a column entitled A Crusade Against Roaming Charges in which he complains about ths silliness of roaming charges. The whole things is a scam, he says. Rather than charge customers exorbitant fees for roaming outside their carriers coverage area wireless providers should charge their customers whatever the local charges […]
Pros and Cons of Twitter for iPhone
A couple of weeks ago, after getting the new version of Twitter for iPhone (iTunes), I found myself unsatisfied. I set out to write exactly why and found that creating a pro and con list led to many more cons than pros. Instead of writing a post about it I ended up trying a few […]
Making The Atom Feed For A Tag in Google Reader Public
Google recently changed it’s sharing functionality in Google Reader to share exclusively with Google+. As part of this change starred and tagged items changed too. Specifically the behavior of their associated ATOM feeds have. The feeds still exist and work in the same way but you no longer have the option to make them public. […]
Santorum ? Jerry Seinfeld
via caglecartoons.com Apparently there are people who think Rick Santorum, who is currently seeking the Republican nomination for President of the United States, shares some traits with Jerry Seinfeld. I disagree.
Scheduling WordPress Posts
I remember a time several years ago when a colleague of mine got in trouble at work for having posted to his blog during business hours. This didn’t stop him from blogging on company time but made him more creative about it. He’d save drafts then post at the end of the day or early […]