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Me and my siblings
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Me and my siblings
Originally uploaded by gt2697
This photo is of me and my siblings that was taken this week at a family
funeral we attended. This was the first picture of all of us since 2004,
which made it all the more special. My brother (the tall one) has been in
the army since 2004, and so we’ve had a hard time getting everyone
together. It’s always difficult when you have to get together for a death,
but it’s great to have everyone there to be supportive of one another.
In Houston
In Houston
Originally uploaded by gt2697
Only here for an hour on the layover. I’m glad too, it’s too humid here for me.
Jetlag
After a less than 48 hour turnaround on the trip to Minnesota, i have a thought about jetlag. This is nothing new, but it’s really the East bound travel that is the toughest. My flight is just about to leave MN, 10am local. That means i left the house at 7am, waking up just before 6am. Thus, i woke up at before 4am Arizona time, thank goodness for coffee!
How much bandwidth does the Slingbox use?
I’m up in Minnesota today and so I of course have been using my Slingbox a bit along the way. Last night I went to bed and wanted to watch a few minutes of Leno, so I fired up the Sprint Air Card and started watching Bill Cosby. 5 hours later, I woke up and found that the stream was still going. In my groggy state, I didn’t think to take a screen capture of the Sprint card information bar, but I do remember that I was at .98GB of data that had been transferred. If you extrapolate this out over the time that the stream was going, it comes out at about 200mb of data per hour of video being watched on the laptop. My max stream on my home network is 512kbps and when I’m streaming over the computer, it is typically saturated. Anyone know the conversion rate and if any of these numbers make sense/add up?
On a good note, it’s nice to see that the sprint card can run the slingbox for that long with no issues.
Greetings from Minnesota
Greetings from Minnesota
Originally uploaded by gt2697
Well, I am up in Minnesota today, so I thought I would post a photo so you can see the beautiful snow that remains on the ground. The good news is that it is sunny, the bad newsis that its 40 degrees colder than Arizona.
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #93
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #93 1:05:50
Show Notes
iPhone back in Mickey’s life, SDK is here, and the N95 is here in the US.
News
iPhone gets Unlimited Voice Plan
iPhone coming to Swisscom April 4th
Cell Phone most irreplacable item for Americans
AT&T Slapped for 3rd party charges
One more reason to cut the landline
Few Phoenix drivers cited under text-message ban
Sony-Ericsson Most Eco-friendly
Acer aquires E-ten smartphone maker
Brits padding lampposts to protect texters
Devices
Nokia N95 available in North America
Nokia N95 could be coming to AT&T
Software
New Sprint Mogul Software with GPS and Rev. A
Windows Mobile 6 ROM for HTC Star Trek
Questions/Comments
Comment from Ralph
Question from Jose
Question from Ryan
Voicemail from Don
Comment from Jan
Comment from Louis
Question from Josh
Question from David
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Angels vs. Rangers
Angels vs. Rangers
Originally uploaded by gt2697
We are at the Angels Vs. Rangers Spring Training game this afternoon. Temps are in the mid 70′s and the sun is shining.
Beautiful.
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #92
The Cell Phone Junkie Show #92 53:05
Show Notes
Sprint fights back with a revision to it’s unlimited plan, but is it enough to save them? We’ve also got lots of iPhone news this week, as well as the usual questions and comments.
News
Sprint “Simply Everything” plans
Simply Everything availible for $10 cheaper with no data
Police find kidnapped girl via cell phone signal
Verizon open network details coming next month
iPhone firmware upgraded to 1.1.4
iPhone launching in Ireland on March 14th?
Taliban threatens network disruption
Qwest looking to jump from Sprint to Verizon?
Sprint hemoraging money like crazy
Verizon charging overages on unlimited plans
I-mate lays off most of it’s US employees
Devices
Software
Mozilla plans on Mobile Firefox by end of year
Questions/Comments
Question from Ryan
Comment from Roger
Comment from Gordon
Voicemail from Greg
Comment from Geoff
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