It's amazing to me that folks don't even delete their contacts and email, much less do a "clean erase" of their handhelds before selling them on eBay (or some other service). All Blackberry.com has some great advice about preserving your private information.
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Author: Carl Setzer
Moleskine
Detour: The City Notebook Experience
Imagine what happens when you mix some of our world’s most creative minds and Moleskine’s legendary notebooks? This site! It’s quite amazing, and rather inspiring to my mind’s creative crevices.
Politicians and pay
It's pretty common for people to complain that politicians are disconnected from "the people". There's a certain truth to this, especially when one considers that they are in the highest income bracket.
I bring to you an idea, then. Why not pay our federal leaders (at the very least) the median salary? As they need to establish households in DC as well at home, I'm all for giving them some additional compensation. Let's give them a housing allowance for the DC property. Also, let's have the taxpayers cover travel (with public reporting to boot). Lastly, let's have Congress' pay raises pass a super-majority of the popular vote; a national referendum, if you will. At the very least, it'll shave a few smackers off the federal budget.
Geek life
I've been pondering the array of stuff in my life. Besides the gadget, I have collections of other things. Namely, email addresses. I have a Hotmail (from the pre-Microsoft days), Yahoo, an old school account, work, and Gmail. For the sake of sanitya, I need to ditch a few of these, but which ones? Oh, the angusih! Well, this is rather dumb in many regards, but all of these are tied to some other service, which makes dropping it completely quite challenging.
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Office Politicos: A Field Guide
What’s next for Whole Foods, Wild Oats?
What’s next for Whole Foods, Wild Oats?
CEO’s anonymous comments on Web could add new hurdle to troubled deal
There really only seems to be one main question here: Mackey was badmouthing Wild Oats in a Yahoo stock forum as a way of devaluing the stock before his attempted acquisition. It would seem (to me) that this would be a concern of the FTC, or at least this conduct’s most damning possible motivation. Otherwise, it’s a goofy episode and little more. The Yahoo piece, is a bit titillating, but really small potatoes to his boardroom talk.
Tour de France leader raises doping suspicions
Tour de France leader raises doping suspicions
Denmark cycling officials ban Rasmussen from competing in 2008 Olympics
Sigh…
I do hope, for the sake of the sport, that this turns out to be nothing.
Yahoo! Underground
Lameass that I am, I’ve not seen this section of Yahoo!. And I consider myself a Yahoo! junkie. Anyway, I stumbled upon this following a link to a Bonnie Burton interview. Fun stuff, methinks! The rocket bit is something else. Brings back my childhood love of blowing things up or launching things into the air.
Tokyo Dance Trooper
When’s the Tokyo train ever that empty?
Sprint’s Customer Service
I just read on CNET’s Crave about Sprint’s "dear John" letters to their more frequent customer service callers. It’s an interesting tactic to streamline their customer service experience. The first thing I wonder about is whether these dismissals are not the work of Sprint. I just can’t see how these can solely be those high-maintenance/"Dinette Set" types. Personally, I see much of this as messes of their own making. Comically, they’re being quite gracious, since they’re fully canceling their service, with no penalties. Considering their reputation, I’m quite certain that I’d be quite pleased with the option to bail. Somehow, I doubt that this will help their churn rate.