Link of the Day:
the internet sucks
The Internet sucks. There I've got that out of my system for the day. How can anyone possibly consider the net a reliable way of getting work done? Just try to get flight schedules. Just try to get the airport code for a less familiar city. Just try to access your own home page at 4:30 in the afternoon. Just try! A company I once worked for in the phone biz used to say their vision was "our children will never know busy tone". Now I know our children will only know "blah blah blah does not have a DNS entry". Stupid all purpose message. Why make you think you typed something wrong when all that's wrong is the site or the whole net is busy? Busy doing what? You can't actually do any work on the net...
area code follies
I have yet to hear anything from Cellular One about reprogramming my car phone for the new area code that debuts next week. Hmm, maybe I'll call my car phone on Sept. 1 and see if I get a message that tells me the area code is now 978. I haven't notified anybody about the area code change. I haven't printed up new business cards - wait a minute I never printed up the old business cards... Not that anyone calls me anyway :-) Just kidding :-) It's that unblinking light on the answering machine thing...the half a loaf of bread and the single serving tuna can and the empty house... oops wrong life...
So next week my area code changes to 978. I hope this doesn't confuse MCI's billing department so they start with the every other week billing again. Getting a long distance bill every other week is annoying, irritating, confusing.. . a nightmare... no matter what I did I couldn't keep up with the payments. I am now terrified that when I go to Japan for 15 days they'll cancel my long distance service again because I will have missed a bill I shouldn't have gotten...
I am clearly not cut out to live in the late 20th century under late capitalism. It's just too much to cope with. Too many choices. Rates and discount plans impossible to compare in three-space. Information overload. Malfunctioning devices you can't just kick to get 'em started again. Knowledge hard won and easily made obsolete. Ick.
Yesterday at the Union Library book sale in Tiverton, RI I saw Gries' Compiler Construction on the nonfiction dollar-a-bag table. Hey, I used that book in the ancient days of computing. It was new then. Moldy now. No one bought it. Even at a buck a bag, what would you do with it? I could've filled a buck bag with just obsolete computer books. Hmm... there was a Department of Agriculture handbook on Water there too. A lot of it was still relevant. It's nice to know that hydrogen and oxygen in the right combination are still water.
arrangements
So, having decided to take to my bed and never travel again what do I do about this Earthwatch trip to Japan I've already paid for? Guess I should go, eh?
What is it with me and travel? I want to go to exotic places but it seems like too much effort and besides that I have to leave home to do it.
Late breaking news:
I just heard on the radio that Bell Atlantic has delayed the new area code implementation until Acting Governor Cellucci figures out whether to sign a bill to allow some towns that insist on keeping 617 to do so. No word on why that effects 508... but it does... so I have more time to find out about reprogramming my car phone.
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