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Drivers using cellular phones are four times as likely to get into a crash that can cause injuries serious enough to send them to the hospital, said an insurance study released Tuesday.
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Using hands-free cellphone headsets while driving is not risk free. People who chat on their mobiles while driving are four times more likely to crash – and that includes those using hands-free devices.
I’m so close to getting my hands on a hw6515… but meanwhile you can check out most of the features in the flash emulator of it:
This is mildly amusing… particularly if you’ve seen Undercover Brother...
The path to better health and lower blood pressure may be paved with cobblestones. When people over 60 walked on smooth, rounded cobblestones for just a half-hour a day over four months, they significantly lowered their blood pressure and improved their balance, a study showed.
Everything you ever wanted to know about GSM frequency bands:
Two frequency bands are used by GSM services in the US. Two different frequency bands are used by GSM services elsewhere in the world.
Ideally, you’d want a phone that can work on all four bands – commonly called a quad-band phone. But these are still rare and expensive.
If choosing a tri-band phone as a second best choice, be careful which three bands your phone has. Some bands are more useful than others, depending on where you travel.
On the eve of an industry summit to discuss how e-mail authentication can stem the flood of spam, one security firm says that spammers are already using the protocols — to slip their junk mail past filters.
Bootleg RSS: TV Edition is a neat new way of using RSS. Here you will find a collection of television channel listings for a large selection of channels sorted by timezone. All these feeds are valid RSS 2.0 that you can stick into your favorite RSS reader or aggregator.
When Glen Richardson decided to create his own home office, it was done with his four young children foremost in mind.
And no, he didn’t build the workspace in a secluded corner of his basement.
Instead it was planted in the hub of his home, right next to the living room.
This has been bugging me for YEARS! Thank goodness I’m not the only one with this pet-peave. 🙂 :
Email: ‘The word ’email’ or its variants such as ‘e-mail’ properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. So “I sent you an email” should more properly be “I sent you an email message.” One sees this misuse very frequently in business correspondence and informal discussions. Its use reveals lazy thinking on the part of its users.
The overall quality of Internet phone service still lags behind traditional landlines, according to a study released Tuesday.
I got this working on my XP Pro box and my Airpanel, works as stated. 🙂
… Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off (and ironically, this can be done even without his permission) before starting work on the box. This is irritating and removes much of the productivity that Remote Desktop brings to Windows. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2
Austin executives have the second shortest commute in the country, according to a new study.
After 15 years fielding the car seen as the pinnacle of Japanese automaking, Honda says it will kill its $90,000, 175-mph Acura NSX late this year.
I’ve been looking for a great pair of COMFORTABLE headphones for my iPod for quite some time now, and after some searching and listening I decided to get a pair of Bose Triport Headphones off of eBay… I ended up paying about $110 (including shipping) for a used blue pair, which beats the $149+tax+shipping street price. I just got them today and so far I think I like them. 🙂
When I was flipping through the manual it said not to turn on any bass boost features because the headphones had undergone the finest of Bose engineering. They weren’t kidding, rap lovers and those who enjoy deep drums will have plenty of enjoyment with these headphones
Here are some other links that may of interest:
I’ve always run Squid on my home linux router. But I recently went through an overhaul in my home office, and tried to silence everything and anything I could since all the whirring fans were so loud I couldn’t think. During that process I replaced my linux router with a Linksys WRT54GS and loaded it with a copy of Sveasoft Alchemy-V1.0 (which I highly recommend). Since the replacement, I’ve been running without Squid – and I’ve missed it. So a couple of weeks ago I got off my ass and got it to work. This is what I did:
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Possessive cockerels use fake sex to keep their hens faithful. By merely mounting females – without bothering to waste precious sperm – cocks ensure their partners will not go looking for male competitors to fertilise them, a new study suggests. The finding may explain why males of many species – from insects to mammals – engage in seemingly meaningless sperm-free sex.
Testing 1-2-3… if I understand how this works, this should post about 1p today. 🙂
Long before smoothies and Frappuccinos there was the Slurpee. The slushy, colorful 7-Eleven brand – and American icon – turns 40 today and is still popular for the same reasons it caught on back then: fun, variety, “brain freeze” and colored tongues.
Also, you can get a FREE Slurpee today!
Happy 7-11 today! Make sure to get your free 7.11oz Slurpee at 7-11. It ain’t much, but its free, so who cares?
Just remember, the only free Slurpees are the special 7.11oz cups, none of the others.
Want to complain on Dell’s website about its customer service? Too late – the Customer Support Forums, operational until last Friday, have been shut down, apparently to try to quell bad publicity there about Dell products and especially after-care service.
The Inquirer’s Charlie Demerjian reports Cingular customer service has admitted to a nationwide problem with their network that manifests itself by intermittently dropping incoming calls right to voicemail, and — worse — without notification of incoming voicemail, either. Apparently, they can fix the problem manually if you ring them…
The comments are just rolling in on that article, sounds like a pretty wide-spread problem.
Fascinating stuff… I have no idea if they’re doing this in the US, but its good to know:
If you are unfortunate enough to either lose or even worse have your phone stolen you should report it to your service provider (your network) immediately! Your service provider can then blacklist the handset so that it can no longer be used to make or receive any calls. The networks do this by adding your phones serial number onto a national blacklist database (Central Equipment Identity Register). Effectively the handset becomes absolutely useless and the thief is in possession of a pretty paper weight!
Was the gallery thing hard to do? -Dirk
Actually, not at all… just a PHP include. Here’s more info here on how to do it:
http://www.gallery-addons.com/
You can find the specifc Newest Album code there, along with the older Random Block generator that ships with Gallery as of late.
July 1, 2005
Dear Time Warner Cable Road Runner Customer:
We wish to inform you of a proposed settlement of a class action regarding Road Runner customers. A settlement of this class action has been proposed that may affect the price of your high-speed Internet service if you choose to own your own cable modem. Please note that this is a proposed settlement only. Detailed information is attached and may be obtained online at www.murrayfrank.com.
Please do not respond to this email; the only information currently available is at the above web site.
Thank you.
Time Warner Cable
People have been complaining for some time now that comments were busted… in reality, I got so tired of comment-spam I just trashed the comment system so I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore.
As of now, I’ve re-enabled comments.
Enjoy. 🙂
I just learned that Text America finally supports RSS again. The RSS feed for my moblog is:
http://riggedup.textamerica.com/rss.aspx
So it looks like you just postpend “rss.aspx” on the end of any moblog on TA that you want to track.
Ok, I finally made the switch to WordPress. A few things I’ve learned:
You might want to update your RSS feed URLs, the new ones are on the right-hand sidebar.
I’m thinking about moving my moblog here as well, but I’m waiting for Postie to be updated to support POP3-SSL.
Think Star Trek: You are here. You want to go there. It’s just a matter of teleportation
General Motors Corp.’s “Employee Discount for Everyone” program sent the automaker’s sales soaring last month to the highest monthly total in two decades and allowed it to unload huge amounts of inventory. Now, Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG’s Chrysler Group are launching pricing schemes of their own.
Allowing ‘morning-after’ contraceptive pills to be sold over the counter does not increase their use, suggesting that easy availability does not lead to an upsurge in unprotected sex, British investigators report.
Scientists have proposed two new techniques for growing meat in a lab by a process that could one day make beef cows obsolete.
Prius is comfortable, a festival of technology and unquestionably cleaner-burning than the VW can be today with only high-sulfur diesel fuel available. But the real-world mileage of pleasant-driving Jetta was better than that of Prius, and diesel fuel typically was 16% to 20% cheaper than unleaded gas.
Jetta lived up to its one-tank billing. Prius did not.
This is really slow on my Nokia 6820, but it does work…. I think this is actually the first useful app I’ve ever installed on this S40 phone.
Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and Keyhole satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones or other devices
This is a collection of pinouts that I’ve gathered over the years and umpteen hours of buzzing out cables
Classic99 is a freeware TI-99/4A emulator for Windows 9x. Classic99 runs most stuff fine
This four-step wizard will guide you through the process of creating a new SPF record for your DNS domain.