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Check this out…

http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/005994.html

Yes, you clicked correctly. I’ve gotten over 100 visits now to Go4Prepaid, at the below page, from this entry.

http://g4pp.blogspot.com/2007/07/iphoneon-gophone-yep-it-can-be-prepaid.html

Very, very cool. And no, I didn’t pay the author, but I sure did thank him a few minutes ago via his contact form for the plug. Needless tosay, I feel rather special right now :). Then again I’m sure that my being on the front page of Google results for various cell phone models helps. Along withhaving the site for about two and a half years now. I feel so proud to see that about 2\3 of my site hits on Go4Prepaid come from Google, with no payment required, so people are generally finding what they’re looking for. Amazing.

Well, time for a shower and then bed. Chemistry homework, as well as a earth science paper and a lot of studying for finals, ca cait till tomorrow.

fulfilling his oath, to aid the Grate Danes,
eazing their angwiish, heeling teh horror
they suffert so long, no small distress.
As token of triumf, presented a cheezburger.

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/11/30/weve-replaced-johns-phone-bill-with-a-portion-of-beowulf-in-anglo-saxon-lets-see-what-happens/#comments

Okay. So I locked myself out of my room…again (yeagh why don’t they ahve key cards here). And I spent time eating and watching presidential debates on YouTube. Which I’m still doing. At http://www.youtube.com/republicandebate. So with that link I’m done for the night…probably.

No…it’s cheese…but this is rice:

http://www.freerice.com

No, I haven’t seen Borat, nor do I have a particular desire to. But I like that line. And it’s relatively pertinent in this case. If you go to the link you see they’re givingaway rice…to the hungry people of the world. Nice thought…and the’re a non-profit so that’s their mission. But their other mission is making you smarter. Their custom-built system gives you a high-powered word and asks you for a synonym, tailoring the “game” to your vocabulary level nd seeking to expand that level. They’ve been in business since October 7th…for about seven weeks. In that time they have, by people getting 10…no wait it’s now 20…grains’ worth of donations for each word they get right (thanks to advertisers displayed on the web page), generated a massive 4.2-plus billion (with a “b”) grains of rice to end world hunger. Okay, so that migh actually be not that much, but it’s a coolway to raise money for ending world hunger, while at the same time endeavoring to make the population more literate. I think I’ve raised a thousand grains or two so far. Hey, it’s a cool, beneficial use of the web. Check it out.

Oh, in case you’re wondering, looks like there are about 29,000 grains of rice in a pound of rice, or 1800 in a half-cup serving. So, up until the end of last night FreeRice has raised some 144,000+ pounds, or a little over 72 tons, of rice for the hungry. That gives enough rice to dish out over 2.3 million servings of the stuff. That’s some serious anti-poverty power by a little web 2.0-ish company. Applause for them. I think I’ll generate a thousand grains really quick here to end world hunger 🙂

P.S. I think I’m up to 2000 grains now. My computer is set to remember such things now so I can keep track of my progress easier.

Yeah I know I know. I haven’t updated my blog in ages (yes, I know by now that ten days on the net is ages). And I haven’t updated Go4Prepaid in even longer. 🙁 Very sad indeed. Well, I’m remedying the first problem right now. And I’m going to my Go4Prepaid forum to check up on the folks there. Anyhow, I’ll be posting several times today.

First off, I own twenty shares of Apple stock. Just an experiment really…I think I’ll be putting that money back into my business as soon as the stock rises back up above what I bought it for. I got it for $185 using Ameritrade, whic gives you a month of free trades. I’m going to sell because I think my money is better spent on my business, which is now the largest of its kind in the world. Nice to be able to say that. But it needs a smll cash transfusion. Which the sale of the Apple stock and withdrawal of funds from Ameritrade should give it.

Enough about stocks though. See everyone a little later. I think I’ll post every hour until I go to sleep tonight…whenever that might be…about something or other. This blog seriously needs updating 🙂

Well, I got a lot done today. Now to do homework. But first, instead of a glowing review of the virtualization abilities of VMWare Fusion that turn my Mac into a dual-OS-at-once machine with reletive alacrity, I’ve gotta rant on the fact that over TWO HOURS in the dryer a rather large (though not overly so) load of clothes did not get dried. On the contrary, I think the “dryer” merely warmed them up. Wonderful; now I just hope the dry Colorado climate of my dorm room will do a better job of getting the clothes dry than that dryer, into which I poured three whole dollars to no avail. Looking forward in this respect to the point when I will be in a non-school-controlled apartment complex, where the laundry facilities will actually work. What a thought!

Sorry for not posting for two days straight. Have been busy. But heres something to munch on…before I go to bed the earliest I’ve gone to bed in a long while:

CellularOne (Dobson) is now bought out by AT&T. Thus adding to the huge “dath star” that is AT&T. Yes, the iPhone will now be “legit” in more places and data speeds will likely go up, but at what cost? Customer service will likely start to decline relative to what it was with CellularOne. Very, very competitive plans will soon be no more (450 per month for all of Texas or $100 a month for all of the US were two CellOne plans…a $60 150–minute unlimited night-and-weekend plan was another), replaced by what seems to be an industry standard now. Don’t get me wrong, AT&T has some good aspects, and if you’re on CellularOne your mobile to mobile community just got about 2000% bigger, but for one thing AT&T does some heavy branding on their phones, and locks them network-wise, something Dobson CellOne didn’t do. 🙁

Let’s just hope something good coms out of this. AT&T has to divest a few markets where it doubled p coverage-wise with Dobson CellOne so we’ll see what happens there. Maybe they’ll e bought by a local carrier and blossomed into something truly awesome. Maybe not. Who knows…I just hope that there’ll be cheap cell minutes flying around once this thing is all over…something AT&T just ain’t gonna do.