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Posts from August 2006

Verizon, BOHICA

Verizon imposes new DSL surcharge
As soon as congress overturns the USF fee dating back to the Spanish-American war, Verizon tacks on an equal surcharge on their service. You gotta love these guys!


Switching to Blackberry

I’m going to ditch my low-tech Verizon LG VX-4600 and get a Blackberry. The phone was nice, I could use Exchange to selectively forward email to my phone, picking only emails from select individuals or mail marked high priority. A few individuals regularly abuse the “High Importance” tag on bulk emails, but they’re easily added [...]


If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?

From Boing Boing:
If the liquid could be explosive, why are you dumping it in a crowd?
So CNN is reporting: “Because the plot involved taking liquid explosives aboard planes in carry-ons, passengers at all U.S. and British airports, and those boarding U.S.-bound flights at other international airports, are banned from taking any liquids onto planes.”
And then [...]


PIM Anywhere?

Why doesn’t someone write a personal information manager tool that uses IMAP for storage? RFC822 items in IMAP folders could support x-headers for proprietary/contextual information without impeding the use of a mail client?
It seems that would solve the synchronization problems most standalone PIMs have - and if you don’t have a standard-compliant IMAP server somewhere, [...]