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I’ve been fighting with technology lately, it seems. My GPS suddenly stopped working a couple weekends ago. I wrote a bunch of code yesterday, then trimmed it back to two lines of new code, and somehow managed to crash in those two lines taken straight from some example code. And yesterday evening, I got a phone call from someone, and heard the corded phone in the basement ringing, but neither of my cordless phones rang or would pick up (and didn’t leave a message). So I figured it was time to plug in the beauty shown there on the right.
But hey, in general things are going okay. The Saints are back for a home stand this weekend. The weather’s mostly been pleasant (though we could sure use some rain). The summer’s shaping up to be okay, as far as I can tell. Now if I could just figure out how to get my GPS fixed… It’s under warranty, but I don’t have the original packaging and bought it from amazon - then again, it’s been discontinued and is now selling for less than half what I paid for it last July, so it’ll probably just be easier to buy a new one.
- If you’re looking for a phone similar to the one I got, use this search of Telephones items on eBay.com from umsi4678. I’m very pleased with my refurbished phone, and while there are other sellers of such things, I was happy with the guy who sold me mine.
- In the “not pleased” column: the phones I’m throwing away were the General Electric 28213EE2 DECT 6.0 phones. Utter crap in my environment, as near as I can tell. At least twice a week the handsets would lose the base station. Half the time trying to answer the phone would get a high-pitched squeal in your ear, and the other half of the time you’d get dead air while the wired phone continued ringing.
- Speaking of GPS, Dear Lazyweb, what’s the best software to turn a gps track into a map? I don’t want some interactive gee-whiz map, I just want a static jpeg showing the route overlaid on a map. Gotta be something out there, right? Use the feedback form if you know of a solution, please.
- Ouch. When the Russians are calling America a communist country, that’s gotta sting. American capitalism gone with a whimper [vinnie]