Cingular called and asked me to pay over the phone with my credit card. Guy seemed startled when I told him, no, I'll go online and do it there instead.
I think he was perfectly legit, but damn -- why be startled?
What should I do, then? Send her a gift? Sacrifice? … Unholy fruit basket?
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§ ita § - Feb 17, 2005 7:00:31 am PST #1706 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy HP - Feb 17, 2005 7:01:07 am PST #1707 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
We had the same experience. Cingular needs to get a clue.
Liese S. - Feb 17, 2005 9:20:23 am PST #1708 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hee. Earthlink sent me email telling me I needed to update my credit card info. Of course they didn't ask for password info or anything like that, but still. I ignored it for quite a while, thinking it was a scam. Then one day I had gone straight to their page to do something else, and noticed that, indeed, the credit card they had was about to expire. Heh. So I guess my internal personal filter is set too aggressively.
§ ita § - Feb 17, 2005 9:20:59 am PST #1709 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Does anyone have dictionary software on their PDA?
Any recs?
NoiseDesign - Feb 17, 2005 9:42:30 am PST #1710 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
I use iNoah on my Treo. I think you need to have a wireless connection for it to work though.
tommyrot - Feb 17, 2005 11:53:12 am PST #1711 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The new Mac powerbooks have something called "two-finger scrolling" that allows you to scroll a screen up/down or left/right by dragging two fingers across the trackpad. There is a program that allows older powerbooks and ibooks to do this too: [link]
You need OS X 10.3. There is a script at the above site that will tell you if two-fingered scrolling can be activated on your laptop.
eta: my G3 iBook (purchased Aug '03) is apparantly too old to do this:
Your trackpad does not seem to support W-enhanced mode.
W-enhanced mode is necessary for two-finger scrolling to work.
Perhaps when Apple upgraded the iBook to G4 (late '03) is when this "W-enhanced mode" was added.
Steph L. - Feb 17, 2005 2:18:43 pm PST #1712 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Thanks for the link, Tommyrot! I just enabled 2-finger scrolling on my iBook. It's pretty cool.
DCJensen - Feb 17, 2005 6:31:52 pm PST #1713 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Gmail has enabled Popmail support. [link]
DCJensen - Feb 18, 2005 3:21:08 am PST #1714 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Apparently it's only news to me, I'm told.
le nubian - Feb 18, 2005 7:08:47 am PST #1715 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Gmail looks like it may be going wide very soon. I was on the waiting list for a gmail account since May and I finally got an invitation to join the service.