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GSM Phones are my weakness…
In: RANTING| Technology
27 Sep 2007I have a problem: I like to collect GSM phones. Right now, I have seven.
From left to right.
MOTORAZR V3
MOTORIZR Z3
MOTOSLVR L7i (current phone in use)
Motorola V188 (running V220 software)
Sony Ericsson K700i
Nokia of some description
Samsung T619
Ugh.
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Boston Globe: "Why Facebook went West"
In: RANTING
9 Sep 2007In today’s Boston Globe, there is an article discussing why Facebook went to the Valley instead of staying in the Boston area (article online).
Having now lived in both areas for nearly equal amounts of time, I can tell you that there are substantial differences between them. People from Boston may violently disagree, but I have found [...]
YSlow: Cool idea, performance inhibitor
In: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
3 Aug 2007So, a colleague of mine told me about the YSlow plugin for Firebug yesterday. I had a look at it and it does do an amazing job of analyzing Web pages according to Steve Souders performance rules.
The only hitch in the get-along: a number of pages I visited when the plugin was activated were effectively unusable [...]
Tour de France, EXTREME EDITION!
28 Jul 2007A colleague of mine suggested that the Tour de France give up all pretense of being drug free, and embrace the performance-enhancing image it has developed so carefully over the last quarter century.
His idea was to have the racing teams sponsored by the major pharmaceutical firms, pitting one performance-enhancing approach against another, in a competition [...]
USCIS, Green Cards, and Greed: Your (United States Federal) Government at Work
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
14 Jul 2007It seems that more than the usual immigration backlog reduction process has been at work in the USCIS. There are two likely scenarios that appear to be running around immigration circles these days, regarding the Green Card slot tease that has turned into such a furore.
The first is that the Department of State, which issues [...]
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- Tags: app, application, Canada, Challenges, cro, government, Green Card, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, immigrants, Immigration, Ireland, Issues, it, LAN, Microsoft, Om, pr, run, Technorati, United States
GREEN CARD: USCIS is apparently in deep trouble
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007I have been reading Greg Siskind’s blog, and he has many articles on the growing hue and cry over the USCIS Visa debacle. [here and here, as examples]
Based on everything I have read, I might benefit from this scam. However, it makes me ill to think that a group of bureaucrats broke their own rules [...]
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- Tags: app, blog, EAD, Green Card, HTML, HTTP, IM, Immigration, it, Om, Technorati
GREEN CARD: “It’s no fun, being a legal alien”
In: Canada| Immigration| Life| RANTING
13 Jul 2007As many readers know, I am going through the process — if you call filing a bunch of paperwork and not hearing anything for 2 years a process — of obtaining Permanent Residency in the United States, often referred to as the Green Card.
This morning, on NPR, there was a story about a foul-up in [...]
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- Tags: app, application, ARIN, dreams, EAD, government, Green Card, HTML, HTTP, IE, IM, Immigration, India, IP, ISP, it, leave, live, media, NY Times, Om, One, opinion, permanent resident, PHP, pr, Technorati, United States
T-Mobile: Drop the Cheap Samsung T619
In: RANTING
12 May 2007I actually upgraded my phone through T-Mobile about a month ago, and it was a mistake. I went with the Free upgrade (mistake number one) and chose the Samsung SGH-T619.
It’s a piece of crap. I guess I should have known that when I chose the free upgrade.
My biggest complaint: it won’t send text messages. That’s [...]
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- Tags: customer service, HTTP, IE, IM, it, Om, One, T-Mobile, Technorati, TMobile
Trillian: Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish
10 May 2007I have finally given up on Trillian releasing a new version anytime before the next ice age, and switched to the the messenger client formerly known as GAIM, now known as Pidgin.
Solid, functional, and showing signs that it is in active development. Unlike Trillian, which is slowly becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of messenger clients.
I’m [...]
Nigerian / 419 Scams: People are greedy
In: RANTING
20 Apr 2007Ian Holsman was standing in the bank, when he overheard a woman getting a bank draft to send to the Netherlands to claim her treasure. [here]
Avarice, it is thy failing.
Stupidity is pretty high on the list, too.
Tags: Nigerian scams, 419 scams, greed, avarice, stupidity
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