Just want to apologize to everyone who has been posting comments over the past year or so and not see them appear. I wasn’t censoring; I just wasn’t aware that they were all going into a spam queue and that I wasn’t being notified. My fault, and I’ve posted as many as I can. Thanks… Read More »
via googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com I seem to have missed the fact that Google Voice is now available outside the U.S. Seems to work well, too, and, at least in my part of the world, half the price of Skype. With Skype’s growing footprint on my desktop, I’m all for dumping the klutz where I can.
This just landed in my inbox: more proof, if it were needed, that banks are dumber than a sack of nails when it comes to security. Or they just don’t care: The email comes ostensibly from HSBC’s Singapore office. But it’s actually mailed by 8rewardsroad.com, a Singapore-based marketing company with a somewhat dodgy website. (As… Read More »
Swallowed my pride and bought an Air. It was cheaper than the other options and people I respect are happy with theirs. And it’s nice. But the OS is as quirky as any Windows machine. EG: no apparent way to turn off system-wide spellchecking without some system-level hack. in Pages, wherever you open a document,… Read More »
My bet, though, is that even in 2020, 10 years after this writing, the poor – even the mobile-owning, Internet-surfing, technology-savvy poor – will still be with us. Mobile phone owners won’t be much better off than they were before, and owning a mobile phone, however fancy and Internet-enabled, won’t do squat for helping a person… Read More »