ita, I am so you in that. I get totally unreasonably irritated at people who leave me voicemails.
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I have to remember to not give out my home number, because I can let that voicemail go unchecked for weeks. Silly blinky light.
I have to remember to not give out my home number, because I can let that voicemail go unchecked for weeks. Silly blinky light.
My home phone doesn't blink, it beeps on the dial tone. And since I never give anyone my home number except vendors and so forth, I never remember to check it.
Which is a problem when my father leaves a message and I don't pick it up for three weeks.
People, you have my cell #! Why not use it?
My god. I have a peculiar aversion to checking my voicemail. I can't explain it.
So much this.
I am ridiculously excited for my new phone because I will have visual voicemail and can listen OUT OF ORDER. Which means I can keep avoiding some of the voicemail! Bless.
I have att phone service (at home) and they have an iphone app (!) that alerts me when there are voicemail messages.
thrilling!
So I get notified once every 3 months that I have a message waiting and that message is usually from Att telling me there is a new feature on my acct that I don't need.
I have to remember to not give out my home number, because I can let that voicemail go unchecked for weeks. Silly blinky light.
me too. That light will blink for weeks at a time.
Yeah, the SO never checks his voicemail. Which irritates me to no end. He just calls the person back and says, hey, I saw your call, but I didn't get your message, and then the person has to say it all over again. And then if there were actions required, the SO has to hang up and do whatever and then call back.
So I never leave him messages.
Anyone not on dropbox who'd like to be? I've found it a great way to share big files for free. I'm pimping it because I need even more than the initial 2GB they give you and I get extra space with each referral. So here's my referral link: [link]
Just be aware that dropbox recently changed its terms of service in a way that people are concerned about with regards to copyright issues. It's a loose phrasing, they request rights to your materials "as deemed necessary for the service" which was regarded as boilerplate for "so that we can present your content" but which seems broader than they needed for that purpose.
Between that and the privacy lapse (which I still never heard about from dropbox itself, only from third party sources) I am leaving them, myself.
I think it's still possible to use them effectively, and I found the service very convenient when I used it. But since the items I am storing there are not only subject to my copyright, but deeply sensitive (images of children, etc.) I am choosing not to. If you do, I suggest encrypting your data inside of dropbox. It is slightly riskier in terms of corruption, i.e. you'll have to do user management, but much safer since your data is exposed to dropbox staff all the time, and may be to the public if they goof again. [link]
eta: Okay, looks like I'm a day behind and after they clarified and clarified the clarification, they actually modified the terms again. [link]
So, basically, we can ignore your post? ;)
Seriously, it seems like a good idea to encrypt sensitive materials stored on any cloud, regardless of its terms of service.