August 17th, 2007, 18 Comments »
As I’ve been whinging about, I’ve had a ton of meetings this week. Colleagues have been late for or cancelled a couple of those meetings. They notified me about this via email, 15 minutes or half-an-hour before the meeting, apparently assuming that I had a Blackberry or similar device that supports email.
Given that it’s 2007 and I’m in the tech industry, that’s a fair assumption. I’ve resisted getting such a device because I wanted to avoid being constantly tethered to my email. I’m just not that important, if you get my meaning.
Anyway, apparently the practice has become so ubiquitous that I need to climb on board the caboose of the mobile email train. Plus, I could obviously use a new camera phone.
Aside from the iPhone, what fancy phone thing would you recommend I get?
While looking for a photo for this entry, I was surprised and pleased to discover that Flickr users find blackberries more interesting than the Blackberry.
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August 17th, 2007, 9 Comments »
Huzzah! Apologies for the ridiculously light blogging this week, but my Google Calendar has been blue with meetings day and night. I need a holiday from my trip home.
In any case, my first meeting of the day got cancelled and I’m borrowing some wifi from my client’s office to write this.
I’ve had a couple of Vancouver photos floating around from my crappy camera phone that I’ve been meaning to post:
Is this legal? I sometimes see motorcycles doing this, so it is kosher for a Smart Car? I’ve written before about the inferiority of parking meters, and this is a great approach to fitting more cars onto a street, but is it above-board?
This is brand extension gone horribly wrong. The ‘grown up Slurpee’? I guess it doesn’t cost 7-11 very much to try this out, but who possibly wants this beverage from 7-11?
Now that I think about it, there seem to be two or three ‘anchor’ flavours of Slurpee–Coke, orange–and the rest are in an endlessly expanding rotation. How long before we have Potteresque Everything Slurpees?
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