Month: July 2005

2005-07-30 18:06:00
Bait and Switch or Standard Cell Phone Company Practice?

After careful thought my family decides it is worth the $9.99/month/phone to add 3 extra phones to my plan. Killer gives me three of his old Verizon phones and I call up Verizon Wireless but the cost is actually $19/month/phone. I just don’t get cell phone business practice. Do they think they’re going to get business and loyalty with this kind of practice?

I’m not asking for something that they aren’t advertising to me..in the mail..every week.

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2005-07-29 16:39:00
It’s SysAdmin Appreciation Day

From: Jon Clede

Happy Sysadmin day!

w00t!

-Jon-

From: Emmanuel Mwangi

Happy SysAdmin Apprecation Day

To the Greatest SysAdmin Evar!

Even if I don't update my website.

-E.Mwangi

sniff, thanks guys. I have the best customers in the world.

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2005-07-28 15:37:00

Feminine Intuition

Men think we are not blessed with souls,
Are useful, yes, for drudgery
and helping them attain their goals
(Ours to them, a boring mystery).

We can read, this they accept,
Can work out sums, and write a bit:
Store stuff, remember where it's kept,
And fetch it, when a man wants it.

We're tired of condescension, tired
of being Adam's latest rib
(Woman, the first, rather misfired).
We've had enough.  Computer Lib!

–From “Tales from the Computer Room” by John Race. © 1977. 

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