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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
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Man gets $27,000 phone bill after watching Bears game on web--By Chris Chase
Becareful with roaming accounts
Source: Yahoo
On November 2, Wayne Burdick (not pictured) was aboard a cruise ship in Miami waiting to depart on a Caribbean cruise. While still docked at the port, he set up his laptop and wireless card and accessed his Slingbox device which allowed him to watch a Chicago Bears game via an Internet connection. When the game was over, Burdick closed his computer, embarked on the cruise and returned home to finda bill from AT&T charging him over $27,000 for the three hours of Internet usage.
Apparently, AT&T had charged Brudick the international rate for the access. At two cents per kilobyte, the total charge was $27,788.93 for the time spent watching the game, which breaks down to about $6,500 per Rex Grossmaninterception.
Burdick pled his case to AT&T, saying he was still at the port and not in roaming territory. After speaking with nearly a half-dozen people at the company, he managed to get the bill down to $6,000, even though he provided documentation that he was still technically in Miami at the time he used his wireless card.
Eventually, the whole matter was settled after Burdick contacted Team Fixer at the Chicago Sun-Timesand they contacted the phone company. AT&T acknowledged its mistake, saying that Burdick's device was picking up a signal it shouldn't have been.
At least Burdick's efforts were worth it. The Bears beat the Lions that afternoon, 27-23.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
2 Oscars for A R Rahman, 8 for Slumdog
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
This is the time
This moment sits at the intersection of the best of your past achievements and the best of your future possibilities. What a powerful combination that can be.
This moment has already begun. And you can determine how it ends.
Look back at what has brought you to this moment and find something for which to be sincerely grateful. Look forward from this moment and find something that will enable you to realize your deepest purpose and fill your world with joy.
Then make use of this moment to tie those two things together. Put your richest blessings to work so that they can move you toward your fondest dreams.
This is the time to make that connection. This is the time for you to live and to act, to think, to feel, to experience and to move gratefully toward your richest possibilities.
The best of what your life has been is alive in this moment, ready to carry you forward. And the best of what's to come is ready to be fulfilled.
-- Ralph Marston
Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offline
It’s easy to downplay Gmail as an enterprise email solution — it’s only available as webmail, and if the internet goes down, so does your email.
When Google Gears was launched, people began looking forward to the day when Gmail would become an offline application. Today it happened —Gmail can now be used outside the cloud if you wish.
I still can’t see the feature, but Google announced it today on the Google Enterprise blog. The feature is said to be available immediately in Google Apps, and will be rolling out gradually for all Gmail users.
To enable the new feature, should you have it, follow these steps:
- Sign in to Gmail and click ‘Settings’.
- Click the ‘Labs’ tab and select ‘Enable’ next to ‘Offline Gmail’.
- Click ‘Save Changes.’
- In the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username, there will be a new ‘Offline’ link.
- Click this link to start the offline synchronization process.
What makes this possible is something called Google Gears. Gears is available on all modern browsers as an addon, with the exception of Chrome which has it built right in.
Let’s hear what you think about this new feature — do you think it will it put more pressure on Outlook?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Never Give Up
Bringing a giraffe into the world is a tall order. A baby giraffe falls 10 feet from its mother's womb and usually lands on its back. Within seconds it rolls over and tucks its legs under its body. From this position it considers the world for the first time and shakes off the last vestiges of the birthing fluid from its eyes and ears. Then the mother giraffe rudely introduces its offspring to the reality of life.
In his book, A View from the Zoo, Gary Richmond describes how a newborn giraffe learns its first lesson.
The mother giraffe lowers her head long enough to take a quick look. Then she positions herself directly over her calf. She waits for about a minute, and then she does the most unreasonable thing. She swings her long, pendulous leg outward and kicks her baby, so that it is sent sprawling head over heels.
When it doesn't get up, the violent process is repeated over and over again. The struggle to rise is momentous. As the baby calf grows tired, the mother kicks it again to stimulate its efforts. Finally, the calf stands for the first time on its wobbly legs.
Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes, and they'd get it too, if the mother didn't teach her calf to get up quickly and get with it.
The late Irving Stone understood this. He spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud, and Charles Darwin.
Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these exceptional people. He said, "I write about people who sometime in their life have a vision or dream of something that should be accomplished and they go to work.?
"They are beaten over the head, knocked down, vilified, and for years they get nowhere. But every time they're knocked down they stand up. You cannot destroy these people. And at the end of their lives they've accomplished some modest part of what they set out to do."
Have you learned to get back up? Being defeated is a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Steven Covey says, ?The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.?
Success is never final and failure is not fatal. It is the courage to get back up that counts!
You are what you believe. BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!
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