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Why You Should Skype, Not Vonage
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 19th, 2006
I cancelled my Vonage account today. Vonage is a “Voice over IP” (VOIP) company that lets you use your high speed internet connection, with their specialized equipment, to make phone calls. Slick setup, reasonable quality, and great value. For $20 a month, I got 500 minutes anywhere in North America, with all those fun voicemail, call waiting, conferencing doohickeys thrown in. But then I tried Skype.
Herb Hupdate
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 17th, 2006
The main problem is that my apartment gets very little direct sunlight, so the more sensitive plants are starving to death. This is too bad, as I’m finally interested in keeping plants alive, now that I can eat them.
My Mommy Rocks
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 13th, 2006
My mom just a finished a week-long visit with me. The thing about moms, and my mom in particular, is the staggering amount of work they can accomplish for their offspring. In seven days, my mother filled my fridge with healthy food and left me several simple recipes, redecorated my apartment so that now it looks like a cool, adult pad instead of a storage space for the homeless, and forced me to finally take out the recycling.
Zefrank Has an Idea: Brain Crack
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 12th, 2006
ZeFrank rocks. Ideas are brain crack. Don’t execute them.
Making Better Money Decisions
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 6th, 2006
In one example, he suggests you are going downtown to the theatre with a $20 ticket, and a $20 bill in your wallet. When you arrive, you realize you have lost the ticket; most people will not spend the remaining $20 on another ticket. If you had gone downtown with two $20 bills however, and at the theatre realized that you had lost one of the $20’s, you would use the remaining one to purchase your ticket. In the first case, you see the ticket as now costing $40 (way too much!), but in the second case, you see the lost $20 as not being related to the cost of the ticket. In reality, both scenarios are exactly the same.
Crazy Thieving Squirrel
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 2nd, 2006
I recently went on a camping trip with some friends, ostensibly to celebrate the fact that many of them had upcoming birthdays. I’m not a big camper, but it seemed like a good cause, and they are my friends after all, and there was a promise of cake.
Then nature intervened.
My Mac “Switcher” Experience Part 6
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on July 1st, 2006
I’ve put my MacBook through its paces, and now it’s time for some hard truth. Despite my previous gleeful ranting, I’ve had some serious disappointments using this computer. But in the end, I don’t anticipate most of them affecting the average user.
No More Pencils, No More Books…
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on June 30th, 2006
School’s out for summer. Another year over. Yesterday was the last day with the kids, and a whole bunch came by to hang out and get me to sign their yearbooks. It was great having a grade 12 homeroom; it really let me see a side of the high school experience I had missed last year.
My Mac “Switcher” Experience Part V
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on June 29th, 2006
I’ve had my MacBook for a couple of weeks now, and it is by far the best machine– laptop or otherwise– that I have ever used. And that’s in over 10 years of geekily intimate involvement with computers.
Why People Think (North) Americans are Stupid
Posted by yoursinwriting in Everything Else on June 29th, 2006
The college boys look like illiterate yahoos, while the UK kids come off as David Attenborough prodigies. Awesome.
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