Archive for the ‘consumer’ Category
Good ice cream in Wallingford.
A small minority of individuals show no loss of reaction time or mental skills when combining mobile phone use and motorway driving.. How much do you want to bet we’ll soon see surveys that show a majority of people think they are “supertaskers” and can talk on the phone and drive with no loss of [...]
Five weeks ago I started using Twitter. I didn’t know what to really do with it, and I wasn’t sure what to expect from it. After five weeks, I’ve realized that I enjoy Twitter far more than any other social networking site. I always had a strong dislike for MySpace. It seemed pointless and obnoxious. [...]
I recently bought an iPod Touch. My two word assessment is it is a device of perplexing glory. I hope to have a more detailed review soon, but in the meantime I’ll say — and not to be crude — it has revolutionized my time in the WC.
I thought Apple, not Apollo, brought us the iPhone, but I was clearly wrong. Fringe blog has the true — and surprisingly entertaining! — story.
The iPhone is a stunning device. It’s astonishing to me that not only does the iPhone live up to the majority of the hype but also that Apple got it so right on the very first try. Handset manufacturers everywhere better be very very embarrassed. Some have been making phones for 20 years, and their [...]
Thanks, Comcast, I’m now a server. UPDATE (a few minutes later): Okay, so a modem reset fixed the problem: Lessons learned: 1. Be patient. 2. Reset/restart/reboot. 3. Blame invisible things.
Happy Memorial Day! I’ve been spending most of the day cleaning up around my apartment. It wasn’t overly messy, but a lot of stuff just had been stacking up over the months. For example, I still get a lot of paper bills and statements. I don’t pay much attention to these because I keep nearly [...]
T-Mobile won big again in J.D. Power awards for 2007! Here are the 2007 overall rankings (for Volume I, that is): * Northeast: T-Mobile * Mid-Atlantic: T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless (tie) * Southeast Region: Alltel, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless (tie) * North Central Region: AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Verizon Wireless (tie) * Southwest Region: [...]
Unrequited love often turns to bitterness. Sometimes even a foul bitterness that can only boil up from the evil brew festering deep within man’s black heart. Such has my love for the iPhone become. How fickle is my nerd heart! The iPhone is absurdly expensive if you factor in Cingular’s outrageous data and voice charges. [...]
