August 2005 Archives

...although that doesn't take much. I managed to get my pda connected to the net through my cell phone. W00t! Now can get online ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. Damn, I am a geek sometimes. Will come in handy on trips though. I just need to get hooked up with a couple of extra batteries now.

Top News Article | Reuters.co.uk

I used to hate cell phones. I have gotten so used to carrying one, that I dumped my landline and now use nothing but the cell. Generally I will cut it off in the bank, shopping line, etc.; or at the very least cut the ringer off.

It never fails though. Everyone at work knows that I am busy this morning, and not too call, but they did anyway, and of course I had neglected to cut the ringer off. I immediately hung up and turned the damn thing off, but it still irritated the hell out of me.

Something that I have noticed is that people who would never think about calling me on my home phone won't hesitate to pick up and call me on the cell phone for the most insignificant iota of bullshit, which is probably why they called today. Fucking morons.

Stealing your neighbor's Internet? Experts urge caution - Aug. 9, 2005

"If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing," said Julie Ask, research director at the technology consultants Jupiter Research. "But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well..." speaking of a man who was arrested earlier this month in Florida for just that.

Damn. One of the things that I noticed with the iPaq is that on my drive to work and back, there were about 30 different wireless networks. I decided to stop in the Jameson Inn parking lot just to play around. Guess I will have to watch it. I never was able to get a connection, but I suppose that if I had, it might prove to be a problem.