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eftychia at 12:55pm on 2002-08-23Something I forgot to post about... A couple of days ago I heard a radio commercial with a long setup, where the punch line amounted to, "When you can do what D'Glenn has been doing for the past three years, that's the business side of mLife."
It was basicallly, "You're on your way to a meeting, already a couple of miles from your computer, and email comes in saying that the meeting location has changed. When your computer automatically forwards that email to your phone..."
On the "neener neener so there" side, I've been having my email -- after the filters that sort out the most obvious spam and sort list mail into a different folder for each mailing list -- copied to my phone since I got a cell phone. At first, it was just the first 110 bytes of each message, using Short Message Service. (I had the whole message forwarded, but the phone could only display that much of it.) A year or so ago, when I got a phone with wireless-web capabiltes, I changed it so that the entire message gets forwarded to my web-based, phone-accessible email address, and just the sender and subject lines get sent via SMS. (Why send it both ways? Because the web-based email only works when the phone is already in data mode, and SMS works when it's in voice mode. So the phone beeps to tell me I have new email, and I can switch to browser mode to read it ifwhen I feel like it.) What's my point? Only that doing this is not that hard, and I thought it was a just plain obvious thing to do.
On the whiny/grumbly side, it doesn't seem to be working today -- I get "network not responding" when I try to connect in browser mode, so ether AT&T is having network problems with PocketNet, or they've screwed up my account Yet Again and customer support will have to turn things back on again. It was working fine as of last night.
<cough cough> Early adopters?
Tangentially speaking, does it ever annoy you to hear "lightyear" used as a measurement of time (similar to the "she made the Kessel run in under three parsecs" comment!)?
Face it Glenn, to do a Tempus-via-Holly on you: Glenn, you are a geek. A geek are you, Glenn. You, Glenn, are a geek. A geek you are, Glenn. And so on..
Re: <cough cough> Early adopters?
I'll cop to the geek label though: this wasn't a case of being an early adopter to a new technology; rather it was a matter of my seeing as obvious a way of sticking together a couple of established tools for my convenience, and not realizing that it was something someone else would see as clever and new.
And yeah, it does bug me to see distance units confused with time ones, but I often switch things the other way in conversation ... it's not that I confuse time units for distance, but that I describe distance using a travel-time metric. "My place is half an hour North of College Park,
and fifteen minutes West of the Inner Harbour." Not sure whether that's a universal thing, an English-specific thing, or a regional thing, but it's how I'm used to hearing distances expressed.