COX Cable censors some numbers and you cannot call them. That has nothing to do with content, or porno, or any other convoluted excuse. They do it because they don’t make sufficient money on those numbers. So, I will cancel all their services, and walk away happy that they won’t have my $60,000 every ten years.
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Silverlight, Microsoft’s latest piece of bloatware, is here to compete with Flash, a slick, multi-platform media delivery platform. Just to convince you that it is needed (why, oh, why, would we need another plugin), it will bomb your machine mercilessly. Unless, of course, it is running Windoz… Typical Microsoft.
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A friend asked me if I was planning to get an iPad. I started answering “I haven’t decided yet” and then, without even an inflection on my voice, before ending the sentence I added to it “why I will buy it”. In other words, the decision to buy it is already there, I will just need to think of a valid justification. Further, the decision is there because I have a lot of speculative reasons to buy it, but still the purchase will be compulsive. Hats off to Apple for getting me in this unconditional purchase mode… So, I thought, let’s commit to this blog the reasons I can think of at this time, and get back to check the accuracy of my predictions in four months.
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