With a heavy heart and an empty wallet, I’ve decided that I am finally fed up with crappy AT&T service, enough so that I’m letting go of my iPhone! I was an early adopter. I waited in line for my first iPhone the day it came out. I had a Verizon Wireless Blackberry 7200 prior to the iPhone and was amazed that I couldn’t actually use my new snazzy phone in my house for the first several months. However, the phone was a cool enough novelty that I put up with the network and dropped calls figuring it HAD to get better.
I upgraded to the 3G iPhone the week it came out (even though there was no 3G where I lived (yet)) and I’ve still got my eye on a WiFi iPad. I just can’t wait until Christmas to see if Apple and Verizon can come to terms (and if Apple will build a CDMA version or if they will wait for LTE). Read more…
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Someone I am very close to was recently writing an article for a professional journal for veterinarian medicine. She asked me to proof read the article, but was unhappy with my recommendations and suggestions. The topic of the article was the Internet and veterinarian medicine. She presented a couple of angles on the potential uses and misuses of the Internet by veterinarians but failed to mention web2.0, social networking, social media, and viral marketing.
She asked that I help her with some changes, but when I started making suggestions she was reluctant to include my changes in her article because the audience had never heard of “web2.0″ and were more concerned with the loss of prescriptions as a profit center to 1800petmeds.com.
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I was walking down College Street in Blacksburg recently and noticed that Slumdog Millionaire was playing at the Lyric Theater. I had never been to the Lyric and I have been wanting to see Slumdog for a while so I knocked out both birds with a single stone.
Last night, Stacie and I went to see the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it. Stacie didn’t have any idea what the movie was about and was afraid that I was taking her to see a political movie based on the name and the fact that she had never heard of it before. I also am guilty of taking her to political movies in the past.
As I said, I had not been to the Lyric before and was very surprised when we walked around the corner to see how long the line was. I was afraid we were going to have to go the the big theater, but we made it in just before they quit selling tickets to the early show. While in that long line Stacie saw the poster (my thumbnail) and thought that was a wierd poster for a left wing political movie.
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Stacie napping
Stacie thinks I have too much time on my hands if I’m actually considering a blog. I’m not so sure. We’ll see how it progresses.
The picture above is another from our summer 2006 vacation to Alaska. We had a nice long hike on a glacial bar somewhere in the vicinity of Polychrome Pass in Denali National Park. We came across lots of wildlife including a herd of caribou shortly before this picture was taken.
We stopped for a hot lunch of some sort of soup or other, then Stacie settled down for an afternoon nap.
I walked around and took pictures of some flowers which I will eventually get posted to the photo albums.
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