So I left Dom May a voicemail message yesterday. Turns out Telstra has a new “Voice to Text” thing going on.
Here’s the text Dom got from the message I left:
“Hi Don, it’s James. If you have got it or non today. I presume you’re on your may to North Sydney. I bought a tickets to send Jane. So I guess that.”
This message was provided by Telstra at no charge to you.
Damn right they didn’t charge.
The Game Of Life
12:40 Nov 1st, 2009 | 1 note
Apparently I fail at it. The results of our game of “The Game Of Life” at Michael’s house tonight:
- Bec: $2,320,000
- Dom: $1,655,000
- Michael: $1,585,000
- Mitch: $1,480,000
- James: $1,200,000
Screw “The Game Of Life”, I’m going try a lot harder in real life.
Wow.
11:32 Oct 13th, 2009 | Notes
T-MOBILE AND MICROSOFT/DANGER STATUS UPDATE ON SIDEKICK DATA DISRUPTION
Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers:
T-Mobile and the Sidekick data services provider, Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, are reaching out to express our apologies regarding the recent Sidekick data service disruption. We appreciate your patience as Microsoft/Danger continues to work on maintaining platform stability, and restoring all services for our Sidekick customers.
Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information. However, the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low. As such, we wanted to share this news with you and offer some tips and suggestions to help you rebuild your personal content. You can find these tips at the T-Mobile Sidekick Forums (http://www.t-mobile.com/sidekick ). We encourage you to visit the Forums on a regular basis to access the latest updates as well as FAQs regarding this service disruption.
In addition, we plan to communicate with you on Monday (Oct. 12) the status of the remaining issues caused by the service disruption, including the data recovery efforts and the Download Catalog restoration which we are continuing to resolve. We also will communicate any additional tips or suggestions that may help in restoring your content.
We recognize the magnitude of this inconvenience. Our primary efforts have been focused on restoring our customers’ personal content. We also are considering additional measures for those of you who have lost your content to help reinforce how valuable you are as a T-Mobile customer.
We continue to advise customers to NOT reset their device by removing the battery or letting their battery drain completely, as any personal content that currently resides on your device will be lost.
Once again, T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger regret any and all inconvenience this matter has caused.
- T-Mobile letter to their customers after all the information on their cellphones was permanently deleted. Forever. Gone. Kaput.
This has to be one of the biggest cloud computing disasters in the history of the internet. For background, the T-Mobile Sidekick is a cellphone which stores nothing on the device. Every bit of information is stored on T-Mobile’s (Microsoft’s) servers. Every photo, contact, calendar, everything is stored on the web. So to get this letter saying that every one of the 800,000 Sidekick users’ data has been permanently lost, with little to no hope of recovery is astounding.
This also comes as a huge blow for the cloud computing industry, who didn’t need this sort of event to happen just as they were gaining consumer trust that their technology is safe and reliable.
But seriously, wow. Microsoft, the largest computing company in the world, just lost 800,000 peoples’ information. The best part: they didn’t have a backup of any of it. Hypocrite much? As TechCrunch puts it, it’s beyond fail.
Telstra Word Of The Day!
12:57 Oct 8th, 2009 | Notes
The Word of the Day is:
Home Network Gateway
“With Telstra Home Broadband, everyone can be online at the same time from anywhere in your home, without messy wires, which makes for a much happier household.”
Wow! What an amazing product! You mean I can have multiple devices using the same internet connection, wirelessly? And at the same time?! Just by using this Home Network Gateway?
Oh wait, you mean ‘Wifi’.
Okay Telstra, it’s time to get real. Trying to simplify computing language for the masses is one thing, but treating them like idiots by not giving them the proper terminology is going much further than you needed to go. You can’t go into a store and buy a Home Network Gateway, because it doesn’t exist. It’s jargon that your marketing people made up because they thought the term ‘Wifi’ was too complex for people to understand. You’ve just made the computer illiterate more computer illiterate.
Give people credit when it’s due, this isn’t the 90’s, they know what ‘Wifi’ is. And if they don’t, then you can explain to them what it is. You went to the trouble to explain your marketing team’s illegitimate offspring, the Home Network Gateway, didn’t you?
Word Pad Sucks
9:38 May 29th, 2009 | Notes
Have you ever installed a release candidate version of windows, not bothered to install a full word processor, started using Word Pad to type up your music composition process diary then have the entire OS crash and then get the blue screen of death?
I have!
I was writing my process diary during debating training (yeah, not much actually happens) when, all of a sudden, without warning the screen flickered and gave me the classic blue screen of death then restarted. I didn’t have time to react. No frozen screen or cursor or anything!
What the hell happened?! This is Windows 7! It’s not supposed to do that! It’s supposed to work properly!
The up side is that once it had dumped the memory, it quickly rebooted. My work wasn’t there but at least it went to the trouble of restarting for me. In all honesty, I wasn’t that annoyed, I had only done about three lines of work. But I’m still kind of curious as to why the hell it happened.
Cooking pasta! Don’t really know what the hell I’m doing. Using Mac to help me!
