Monthly Archives: June 2010

If iPhone FaceTime Doesn’t Count…

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From Business Insider (Stop adding crap to my clipboard, you douchebags.)

“The voice call ends as soon as the FaceTime call connects,” Apple tells us. “The FaceTime call is over Wi-Fi so does not use carrier minutes.”

If this is the case, what’s stopping an intrepid hacker to initiate the call using AT&T’s craptastic network, then use his or her home Wifi to never ever rack up minutes?

Someone do this. I will laugh at the people who were silly enough to buy MicroCells… paying AT&T more for providing coverage, eating away at data and minutes even though you’re at home. Wait, 97% you say?

Maybe my house is in that 3%.

Proof of Address

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Eventually, a bill statement is not going to be viable for checking for proof of residency, because most everyone will get eBills.

Where’s Google Mail? No, not Gmail, but like Google Voice, but for your mailing address? Will my address looking something like this?

Josh Kim

PO BOX 5f3a2b8934

Mountain View, CA 94043

I know that there are services that take your mail and scan it and send it to you, but that’s not free. I want to give up my privacy for free services! Hooray.

Never Be Afraid To Do Something Someone Else Has Done

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Whatever you do will be different.

The choices you make to add or subtract, hopefully more of the latter, will effect the final product.

So writing yet another blog engine? No. Journaling engine? Eh… need a better name for what I’m attempting to write.

Gotta figure out what I want specifically and then figure out how I’m going to migrate into this system without breaking too many things.

September 25th was when I started on WebFaction. It’ll be a good date to close out this blog. A little more than three months left.

The Secret To Getting Stuff Done?

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Just do it.

Stop making a list.

I realize now that I’ve been doing this secretly, without actually realizing that things are getting done because I’ve not made a list in a long while.

If the task is waving a red flag, stopping all others, freaking do it and get it over with. Then move on and see what happens next.

Easy as pie. As long as your stockpile of self-control isn’t exhausted, I guess.

Then again, there are those tasks that cannot be done in that sliver of time to have until whatever pulls you away from your groove… in which case, a note to self or a list must be made.

And with that interruption, back to the doing.

Keep Failing, AT&T

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One of the few really “magical” things about the iPad for me was the amazing pricing of the unlimited 3G connectivity. There were tests providing that it really was unlimited.

But then today happened. And some more stuff happened.

From Dustin Curtis:

“Unlimited data” isn’t about data, or price, or value. It’s about not having to worry — or to even think about — how much you use your phone. If I’m on a 2GB plan, even though I use less than 2GB per month on average, I’ll start thinking about rationing my usage every single time I use my phone. That fundamentally changes the experience of having the internet in my pocket.

200MB for $15/month. Fine. But go over? $15 per 200 MB. Why not just push me into the 2GB plan and prorate it? Go with 2GB for $25/month, and if you go over, it’s only $10 per GB.

This is the same reason why micropayments will not work. I shouldn’t have to worry about if checking my email is going to push me over the limit.

Tethering? Why the frick does this cost anything if this plan goes into affect? Maybe if unlimited was still in the picture it makes some sense…

It’s not just AT&T that sucks, though. I have a problem with cell phone companies in general. But that is another post for another day.

Quite glad I got off the iPhone bandwagon a while ago. And I am also iPad-free. I’m almost certain nothing Apple does will make me want to get the iPhone “4G”.

If they do something with the iPod Touch? I’ll be in touch. More on this, also, at another time.