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straight talk

July 29, 2009
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straight talk

After deliberating a smart phone upgrade, I went with the iPhone over sticking with Verizon’s Blackberry Tour. I was disappointed the Tour was missing WiFi. After a week of traveling, installing dozens of iPhone Apps and learning the ins and outs of sending email, writing notes and browsing the web on the iPhone, I returned...
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Why I’m returning my iphone

July 27, 2009
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I signed up with AT&T about two weeks ago and I’m getting out while I still can. I bought an iPhone 3Gs and I’m returning it to the store tomorrow.
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Deliberation over, buggers to the cost

July 17, 2009
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I ported my number to my new iPhone today – nice.
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Where I stand on a new phone with Data plan

July 15, 2009
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Here’s an email I just wrote to my friend summing up my predicament regarding purchasing a new iPhone vs. staying with VZW and getting a blackberry Tour.
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My decision – Blackberry ‘Tour’ or the iPhone

July 15, 2009
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UGH! I’ve come to one of those biggest purchase decisions of my next two years kind-of-thing; I need a new phone. My computing history: Apple User since 1985. Typing to you on my blackbook and occasionally update from my 16GB iPod Touch. Don’t go near Winblows, even though I have XP pro on this Macbook for...
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My new Eee PC 900 – initial thoughts

July 11, 2009
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Addicted to dealnews.com and the like, I bought a netbook the other day but canceled the order due to the fact that netbook didn’t have the 6-cell battery. At work a few days later, my client gave me a netbook saying it wasn’t a worthwhile piece of hardware and I could do as I liked...
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The name server is not sufficient or hasn’t been approved

June 24, 2009
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That’s the error message I kept getting at 1&1.com while trying to update my DNS settings recently: “The name server is not sufficient or hasn’t been approved.” I read a few posts which seemed unrelated except to mention the peculiarities with 1&1’s system. My solution: try, try again. …which worked.
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Hello world!

June 23, 2009
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Welcome to WordPress. This is the first post on idk0.com I’m really impressed with myself for successfully moving all my sites over the past weekend. The move included (2) Drupal sites, (2) stand-alone Wordpress sites and one huge multi-site WordpressMU install. Everything was moved to a new server and restored to new databases. Several of the...
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