I have had the G1 for about two and a half months now, and it is a great phone. I decided to change my plan though because I only call a few numbers a month. So I went to the website and started to change it to the MyFaves 300. The process seemed simple enough until I got to the part for changing services, I wanted to keep my current data plan. It said to do that to just click the keep current services button, seems simple enough except for the problem that the button doesn’t exist, at least when I tried. After trying the process a few different ways I noticed that the buttons all worked like this javascript:__doPostBack(‘btnKeepCurrentPlan’,”) for keeping my current plan so all I did for keeping my current data plan is put the modified version, javascript:__doPostBack(‘btnKeepCurrentServices’,”) in the address bar and press enter. The server received it as a valid command and listed my plan correctly instead of saying I removed it. Should have worked fine, then I checked the pending plan link on the My T-Mobile page and it did not show anything except for the MyFaves plan. This is where I decided to call T-Mobile so I didn’t end up without a data plan, or worse, charges for using data without a plan. So I used the 611 number and got to the page where I say what I want to do. It did get me where I wanted after a while, but I would have preferred to have an option to go where I wanted by pressing buttons. After someone answered they were easy to understand and looked up my account and it did show the MyFaves 300 and the data plan as ready for next month. So as long as the system works fine I will have my new plan on the 23rd. Now maybe sometime when I feel like it and have the time, I will review the G1 as a phone. It has been out long enough though now that I probably is to late because it will just be another review in the all to crowded blog world. I should have got to it sooner, but I do work 40 hours a week and go to school as well so my days are very busy. I will just give my review here then. It is a great phone, especially with the Android Market and because it runs on Linux.
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OS X Wallpaper
I have had my Mac G5 for a while now and am really liking it. I was board yesterday so I decided to make my own wallpaper for it. You can see it below. Click it to get the full wallpaper.
when online advertising goes bad
Yesterday I watched several episodes of Firefly on Hulu, at least five episodes. As you may know Hulu has short commercials during the show, on average 4-5 for each episode, that last for thirty seconds each, so there is two or so minutes of commercials an episode. I really don’t mind them much because they are what make it possible to watch TV shows and movies for free. What I do not like however is the way the advertisements are chosen, there seems to be no real process for this. During all those shows I saw about 25 commercials, around 3 for McDonald’s, 2 for a debt recovery program, the other 20 were all for Target. (Whoever is reading this, I am not saying anything about the companies that make the commercials, because they may not have control over when they are shown.) Showing commercials over and over again does not work to make people want to buy a product. The debt recover one did not apply to me, but I only saw it two times so it was fine, the one for McDonald’s was fine the first couple of times, I wanted to go eat there, I even considered it. After seeing it several more time though it just got old, it did not make me want to go there anymore than I already did. The Target commercial that was shown more than any other one, to be honest, I did not like it to start with, it has this hello goodbye song I find really annoying, the commercial would still have worked despite this if there was something at Target I could have gotten a good deal on. However after I saw it again and again and again. I was completely repelled from even thinking about going to Target I would prefer to shop elsewhere. I kept muting the commercial even though I usually prefer commercials to silence, but it was still annoying even on mute. This is not good for Hulu or the company that puts out the add, or the person watching something on Hulu. It is bad for Hulu because some people may be completely turned off from watching something and then they will not see the adds that pay Hulu’s bills, so the advertisers will not pay for the adds because they do not get customers. This will go all the way down to the person watching a TV show or movie because there will be less and less stuff to watch, and Hulu may disappear completely. Another problem I see with advertising is that these adds are not targeted very well, when the adds look more like they would target children, why are they on Firefly and not on some children’s show where they will make the most profit. Adds should only be shown enough times to get a customer, not turn them off, because even if they don’t become a customer now they may be later, but not if they are annoyed to death first. Adds should be targeted more towards the type of person that typically watches the show so that it is more profitable and customers are more content to watch your adds.
I wanted a second monitor for my desktop, but I don’t have the money. So I took my old Dell Latitude C600 and took the Puppy Linux 2.15 disk that I had laying around and installed it. I then installed the FreeNX client dotpup that I found here. I already had the NX server installed on my Ubuntu Desktop, so it was just a matter of letting my laptop through my firewall and logging in through the client on my laptop. Now I sort of have a second monitor and/or computer. I now have access to all of my programs and files, and also the power of my desktop. This is similar to VNC, but much faster. Another difference is that I am not controlling the desktop on my other computer, but I am logged in as another user or the same user. the only time I can tell that it is not my laptop that I am actually using is if I want to use a program such as games or TVtime, some won’t launch and others have very low frame rates, YouTube videos are also choppy.
Scams
Here is a scam
message that I received today. Many of you have already seen a
message like this and know how to spot one, but for you that haven’t
I will go through and point out things that make it a scam. I will
put my comments in brackets and red. This scam I believe is very
obvious, but there are some written in a similar way that are not as
obvious and are easily believed. Note, the typing errors are from
the original message, they may be because the person does not write
English as a first language or they are trying to look like they
don’t to make their story more believable.
Hello My Dear
How are you doing today, i hope you are
doing fine. I hope and i know that this email [this was not an email
it was sent on a social networking site] that i am sending to you
would be reaching you in good health?with me just here hoping and
praying that you can find a place in your heart to help me save my
mothers life [The person is trying to get my
heart to feel for their story and make me more likely to respond to
them because of emotion not logic],, I want to tell you
something very important, though i am not suppose to tell you now
because we haven’t met before but i know that you would be of good
help to me, but i think i need to tell you this, because i think you
may be a nice person because when i sending these mail,i felt you are
a nice and caring person. And i think i can trust you in this too,
this is why i am telling you this. All i want you to do is to keep
this as a top secret between us [They don't
want me to tell anyone else because someone else might know it is a
scam and tell me not to listen to them]. and also promise me
that no other person will hear this okay. Right now am really going
through hard and terrible life with my mother. [Trying
to make me feel bad for not helping]
Actually it happened when i lost my
dad, my dad is dead and i am left with my mum. so after the death of
my father, his family member came to the house and collected
everything my dad left behind for us. and they ask me and my mum to
leave the compound and they sold the house. We could not able to find
them again because of the war that happened in my country Liberia, so
just last week my mum show to me some documents which my dad use to
deposit $19Million US dollars in a bank here in Ghana and also a
picture of my dad at the time of sign the agreement letter with the
bank and he use my name as the next of kin to the funds. So when my
mum show to me the documents, i was so happy so i travel to Ghana
with my mum. When we get to the bank and we presented all the legal
documents that was given to my father at the time of depositing the
fund with the bank, we were told that the money is still with the
bank, but they cannot transfer the money to us here in Africa,
because my dad went into an agreement with them at the time of
depositing the fund that the fund should be transferred on express
transfer to leave Africa. I never knew my dad was planning of opening a
company abroad. so on our way out of the bank, one of the staff of
the bank advice us to look for a trust worthy foreign partner to help
us receive the funds from the bank. So i want you to help us contact
the bank, so that the bank can transfer the money of my late father
to you, so that i and my mum can come over to your country and meet
you so we all can start a better and happy life again.
Please, i want you to understand that I
trust you and I know you can help me and my family because we are
passing through hard moments here in Ghana, I am a beautiful girl and
so when people see me they don’t know the condition that i am
undergoing due the reason that I don’t want people to know the stress
and pains we are passing here in Ghana, and then we meet and live
life to the fullest, and i feel we can be together if it is meant to
be, that is why am telling you this top secret because am sacred and
this is all we have left in this world. i believe you can understand
my present situation. I trust you that is why I am telling you this
[She doesn't know me, how can she trust me?].
as am
writing you this mail, my eyes is full
of tears because my mum is seriously sick and we don’t know any body
here in Ghana. so we are living with an old lady called Mrs. Vida
[Last name removed in case it is a real
person], she is working as a security officer close to us, but
she is very old and she will stop work very soon, so try your best
and help me and my mum. We really need your help. Life is so hard and
terrible for me and my mum right now in Ghana because we don’t have
any helper. i think I’ve truly been blessed by finding you and I ‘ll
never let you go away from my life. I will want you to understand
that we are going to sign an agreement before the bank will transfer
the fund of my late father to you because we have not met before now
and the Agreement is for the security reason of the funds too. so i
will like you to provide this information so that i and my mum can
get the Agreement done from a lawyer [How are they paying for a
lawyer?] here in Ghana, and send you a copy of it to sign. So please
reply me with your, Full name, Age, Occupation and address. My mum
promise to give to you 20% percent if you can help us get the money
from the bank. [If I did this they would most
likely send me a check to cash and ask me to keep 20% and send the
rest to them. After I have sent the money the
check would not clear and I would be stuck with having to pay back
the money that I sent to them because of the contract that I signed.]
I will send you a picture of my mum, my
late father at the time of depositing the fund with the bank here in
Ghana and a picture of my late father casket during burial ceremony,
and i will also send to you a picture of myself. When i receive a
reply from you. Please try and get back to me so that i can send to
you the legal documents that was given to my father at the time of
depositing the fund with the
bank.
Please take care of your self,
i hope to hear from you soon. God bless
you.
Yours Obediently,
From Nelly and mother
please send a reply to [removed
just because I think it should be]@yahoo.com
If you receive a
message or phone call similar to this one DO NOT! listen to it, you
could have a huge financial problem on your hands if you do. Always
be suspicious of anyone asking for money especially if they ask for
personal information.
my eeepc is back
I received my eeepc back from Asus on February 6, 2008. I have had no problems with it, it is working great. I am not certain, but it appears to be a brand new one unless they replaced the case and changed the serial number. Thanks Asus for replacing it.
I thought that I wold post a couple pictures so here they are. I took them on my camera phone so they are a littler blurry so sorry. I might review my phone later and I might review my Palm TX that I used for a size comparison.
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