Date   : Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:48:45 +0100
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Bye...

On 05/11/2010 18:08, J.G.Harston wrote:

> For God's sake why? Phones are for making phone calls.

You wanna kick that habit? Come to France. Pay-as-you-go GPRS is 15c for 
10K. On a contract, it is around 8c/10K.

Yes, this means a megabyte (what a lot of you Brits measure GPRS in) 
would cost me an appalling ?15.36 (or about half that on contract).

You learn pretty damn quickly to check for specific low-bandwidth 
things. Look, for example, on my b.log and you'll see a "mail check" 
script which fetches headers from my mailboxes (this list included) and 
makes a list so I can choose which things to read. Thank God, also, that 
OperaMini compresses its data. I can fit more in my pathetic little 10K 
slice.


> Computers are for accessing email. You'll be telling me
> next that you use a fork for opening doors, just 'cos you
> can.

Funny you should mention that...

Actually, today at work one of the automatic doors was malfunctioning. I 
wanted to open the control box to power-cycle it (which worked) but I 
couldn't be bothered to find the odd -( )- sort of key it used, so I did 
it with a fork handle.

:-)


Best wishes,

Rick.

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