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I'm feeling really pleased with myself. I'm sitting in a hotel in the middle of somewhere and working on my blog. Till a couple of days ago I'd have to hook my notebook to the landline in the hotel and pay a small fortune for the phone calls.
Reliance Infocomm had started data services on their CDMA phones, BUT the driver they provided was only for Windows machines. I use an Apple iBook, and my enquiries with Reliance showed that did not support Apple Macintosh machines. I figured that I was destined to a life of being hooked to a phone line when travelling; Until I found a post of the Apple Support sites discussion board. Someone was running his Apple off a Reliance phone!
A couple of mails later and a quick search on a site recommended gave me the specifics on what to do. Called the Reliance guy to bring along a phone and data cable. Hooked it up with anticipation and Voila, it worked.
So.... me feeling smug and pleased with myself even though the borrowed Reliance phone went off at 6:30 am. It's not all hunky dory though, so I will come back with the downside of the Reliance phones in another post.
Don't assume that every sad-eyed woman has loved and lost -- she may have got him.
Found the blog where I got the last 2 nuggets from: http://www.blurty.com/~fortune
Burst out laughing when I read this (another blurty blog, but can't remember where)
Ernest asks Frank how long he has been working for the company.
"Ever since they threatened to fire me."
(28 February 2000, Texas) A Houston man earned a succinct lesson in gun safety when he played Russian roulette with a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol. Rashaad, nineteen, was visiting friends when he announced his intention to play the deadly game. He apparently did not realize that a semiautomatic pistol, unlike a revolver, automatically inserts a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. His chance of winning a round of Russian roulette was zero, as he quickly discovered.
True story from Darwin Awards.
Here is another one:
"It was often the mundane chores of war that proved most taxing on the soldiers. Australian's are known for both their inventiveness and curiosity. One of the chores that the grunts in my uncles company had to endure on a rotational basis was the sanitising of the latrines. Under no circumstance could this be discribed as a pleasant duty. Normal protocol required the unfortunate recruit chosen for the daily job to pour lime into the latrine holes. This would sanitise the latrines. One recruit thought they had a better solution. He deduced the heat generated from a phosphorous mine detonator would do the same job both faster and more efficiently. The detonators had a 5 second fuse. Set it, drop it, shut the lid and wait for the phoowh and presto. The latrines were set out in a row of ten. Meeting success with the first test he continued with his experiment. By the last he was drawn by curiosity, what did a detonator in a pile of shit 10 ft below look like when it went off? Rather than shut the lid on the loo and look away he gazed down the hole in order to view the spectical. The resulting explosion sent a pile of excritment flying in all directions. One small ballistic chunk of shit flew directly up one of his nostrils. A reflex reaction made him inhale. Screaming madly he staggered out of the latrine and commenced what my uncle desribed as "extreemly vigerous" nose blowing. Lucky not to be blind or dead from this mis-adventure the soldier was not seen for the duration of his tour of duty without a hankerchief in hand.
Lucky not to die of disease or pure embarrasment he is worthy of an honorable mention I think. "
I spent the evening reading stuff from Darwin and was LMAO. Check it out..
http://www.darwinawards.com - Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
Friday, August 1, 2003 Posted: 4:45 PM EDT (2045 GMT)
CLIFTON, New Jersey (CNN) -- A quick-thinking 15-year-old boy used his Sprint cell phone camera to take pictures of a man who allegedly tried to lure him into his car, leading to the man's arrest, police said.
Read this on CNN. Cool !
Anyone know where I can get reliable SMTP server services? Need authentication, but NOT domain based authentication.
" I killed your Ma, I killed your Pa"
~ 1997 Campaign slogan for soon to be heading for exile, leader of Liberia, Charles Taylor.
Lance Armstrong put himself in position for a record-tying fifth Tour de France title Saturday by finishing ahead of rival Jan Ullrich in a drama-packed time trial. Ullrich fell on the rain-slicked course, got back up and finished 11 seconds behind the American.
THE RACE’S FINAL stage Sunday in Paris is traditionally a ceremonial ride where no one challenges the overall leader. So barring disaster, Armstrong will match Miguel Indurain’s record of five consecutive victories in cycling’s most prestigious event.
Way to go Lance !!!
On him, Craig Conway, PeopleSoft's CEO, did not mince words: "What's interesting with Chuck Phillips (Oracle's executive vice president, Chuck Phillips) is how quickly all that honor stuff they taught him in the military went out the door."
Conway says he always knew Phillips in the past as ethical, with integrity, and to be "a man of great honor." He goes on: "I continue to be amazed at the situational ethics, and that that part of the culture of Oracle continues on. And the Chuck Phillips thing-it's almost like the corporate equivalent of the Stockholm Syndrome."
Reminds me of Colin Powell !
The weather has been terrific the last few days. Its been cool and overcast with spells of rain. As a result, I've been taking the long way to work - driving along the beach on my way to work. It increases my commute by about 3 minutes (normal time is 8 minutes).
I'm beginning to wonder why I don't do this everyday. Its great to have a nice drive, cool clean air, good music. ships out at sea.....
Update: Turns out that there is a cyclone brewing. So this evening it was windy, the rain was lashing a little bit. The ships at sea all but disappeared from view, obscured by the rain. But but out there was INS Viraat, our aircraft carrier. It wasn't there in the morning, but by the time I got back from work it was looming large on the horizon. It looks really menacing, and I wouldn't like to have it stationed off my beach if it belonged to an enemy.
Current music: Bryan Adams.