Category: Technology

  • i do not want an iphone

    I am not sick. I am feeling fine. No fever. No headache. I am not a PC-elitist. While I’ve never personally owned an Apple product, I worked on them at school from Grade 4 through 12 plus a little more through the UT education program. In high school, I completed a multimedia major spending two…

  • iTunes 7 isn’t up to par

    I’m not a huge Mac fan. I can handle my own on the system and used it as my primary education system when I was earning my multimedia (graphics design, desktop publishing, web design, etc) major while in high school. I remember the Macintosh operating system before it was known as “Mac OS”, at least…

  • sim card update

    Good news. The second SIM card, scheduled for delivery on June 5th, arrived on time, without fail and worked. I’ve been talking away ever since. Without thinking about it, I left the first SIM card’s tracking RSS feed in my RSS aggregator and went on with life. After the horror of a SIM card lost…

  • where is my sim card?

    Well, I am still without a cell phone. I ordered an unlocked phone from Amazon.com, that arrived in Wichita Falls on Thursday, May 25th. I had planned on picking up a SIM card at any of the million Cingular stores in Texas between Austin, Houston and Wichita Falls. I arrive at a store in Houston…

  • I’ve Been Lucky Since 1998

    I’ve Been Lucky Since 1998

    In 1998, I started using this great and glorious piece of technology known as a cellular telephone. At the time, it was “mom’s phone” that I held on to when I was out and about in order to keep in contact with her. I don’t know if she ever made an unassisted call using that…

  • will it happen again?

    Another post relating to my various and many problems with Cingular, I hope everything is working. This problem orginally started after a trip I took to Chicago/South Bend. Upon arrival back in Austin, the problems started up. I just got back from another trip to Chicago and South Bend. Hopefully history won’t repeat itself.