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I Had My Text Messaging Turned Off

Monday, January 28th, 2008

About a week or two ago, I was on the phone with some company. I can’t remember which one. The guy said to me, “Do you have a cell phone number you want to add to that?” I replied, “You aren’t going to send me junk mail, right?” He said, “No.” This was a company that I have worked with before and trusted. I gave him the cell phone number to add to my account.

Well, that was a mistake. Almost every day this week, I have received a spam text message. I have been finding this annoying, cubed. That is a little math joke…HAHA. Really, do these people seriously think I am going to click the link in their spam message and visit the website on my tiny, little cell phone screen? Please, let’s get over this whole mobile web thing. The internet on your cell phone just sucks.

After I received two more spams this morning, I called Verizon Wireless and had my text messaging capabilities shut off. Now, I can’t send or receive any text message or picture messages. This is a good thing, because every spam message I received cost me money.

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Recent Windows Update

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

I run Windows Vista. It’s ok. I am not the kind of guy who goes nuts over operating systems out there. I am sure there are some great features with other ones, but I needed a computer because I have work to do.

I have been pretty happy with Windows Vista, although there are some strange things that never seem to work correctly, like ActiveSync. I am not sure why Microsoft can’t seem to get this right. I am running a Microsoft operating system and running Windows Mobile on my PDA. Why is it that I have to break the relationship every so often, because the phone refuses to sync with the computer? I have no idea.

Recently, I purchased Outlook 2007 and installed it. At about the same time, my computer restarted itself to finish installing the most recent updates. Ever since then, whenever the computer goes into sleep mode, I can’t wake it up by shaking the mouse. I used to be able to do this. Now, I have to give the power button a quick push to wake it up. That’s fine, but what happened?

It just puzzles me that it is always a guessing game with what’s going to happen when I install some software or update existing software made by the same people.