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Monthly Archives: January 2011
too bad phone number records don’t have a TTL
Posted by on January 22, 2011
It’s been almost a day since I ported my phone number from AT&T to Google Voice, and I still can’t receive SMS or international calls. Mind you, the porting process explicitly stated that SMS could take up to three days to transfer over, but while I was doing it I didn’t pay much attention to [...]
“because your computer is too fast”
Posted by on January 22, 2011
La Brea: a really interesting tool that uses “AOP-style” cross-cutting wrappers for OS-level calls. I am generally obsessed with the idea that we trust too much the underlying systems that we run software on, and this shows in many subtle ways in code as we are writing it, particularly around error detection, correction, and reporting. “Try [...]
bye bye, AT&T
Posted by on January 21, 2011
On Wednesday the story broke that Google was testing number porting for Voice, but I got there too late: the option was already gone by the time I checked. Then yesterday it occurred to me to check again, and lo and behold, there it was. It just so happened that I was angrier at AT&T [...]
two articles
Posted by on January 21, 2011
and two quotes. 1) “How much time do you spend verbalizing? Every time you talk, you destroy the memory of what you’re talking about.” from Science Proves You’re Stupid 2) “Is [the software we use] it really fulfilling our needs? Or are we reducing the needs we feel in order to convince ourselves that the software [...]
1-1-11
Posted by on January 1, 2011
First off: happy new year! The post title was too much to resist, honestly, which clearly says something about how my brain works. I’ll be damned if I know what it is that it says though. While I was musing about writing something it occurred to me that an arbitrary marker to signify that our [...]
