I like hearing so many different kinds of music at Christmas time. Except when they play the same songs over and over and over and over and…
Tag: Tweets
School of Night
Just got back from seeing “The School of Night” in LA. Good play. Awful drive. Must sleep.
Sick Day
Oddly, after a day sick in bed, doing dishes felt good because I was doing something. I got a lot of reading done, though.
Roam If Your Phone Wants To
A couple of days ago it was reported that, even with data disabled while roaming, the G1 still hits the internet. It turns out it was an edge case: his phone connected to T-Mobile UK and thought it wasn’t roaming, so it kept data active.
Tech People
Argh. I don’t understand how tech people can be such neophobes sometimes! Especially the attitude that “I have no use for it, so no one else could possibly use it, and how dare they waste time producing it!”
Santa Hats, Translation, Expelled
- Saw a bunch of Santa hats lying alongside the entire length of the 55 South to 405 South ramp – and it’s a long bridge. Maybe a box came open?
- Got tech support question in Spanish for wrong company. Replied in bad Spanish with link. Checked against Google Translate. Google has a better vocabulary than I do. 🙁
- Roger Ebert dismantles Expelled (via @mikesterling).
FIB Scamming
Lame 419 scam: How likely is the FBI Director to contact someone using a GMAIL address?
Update 2023: I vastly underestimated the use of Gmail by government officials, didn’t I?