Dealing With Your Cellular Provider’s Downtimes March 21, 2006
I just got off a tech assistance call to my cellular provider, which I initiated when I couldn’t access my email or the web from my new, beloved PalmOne Treo 650. After over a half hour of very pleasant assistance, we got nowhwere. Except that the tech rep admitted to the network being down out in the western provinces in Canada. I said that this must be the problem for me, somehow, as well. She was unwilling to agree and instead pleasantly sent me through configuring, trying, and reconfiguring my Treo’s network settings for a half hour or so.
Now despite …
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Your World Daily Planner
What’s On When has taken a novel idea and turned it into a website. What they’ve done is turned themselves into a storehouse of upcoming events all over the world. Events are searchable through a number of means, including a world map, by continent, country, city, theme, and date range. Quite comprehensive, I’d say.
The one thing it doesn’t have is the ability for someone to enter a search string. The themes are predefined, so you’d have to sift through a page of listings to maybe find what you’re looking for. However, maybe they’ll add features in time.
What’d be really …
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The Internet Superhighway Goes On The Rails
Planes, trains, and automobiles. The Internet has been available on airplanes for some time now. It’s only fitting that trains are next. VIA Rail Canada now offers WiFi access on their trains along the Quebec City - Windsor corridor.
For those of us that have been waiting 20 years for the promised high-speed trains along this rail corridor, being able to access the Internet on trains is no substitute. But it also means that we can work while travelling. Which sort of makes up for not being able to get to our destinations quickly.
The first thing that struck me, upon reading …
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