So I just switched to verizon wireless from Sprint after NINE years!

I wouldn’t have done it, except for the fact that my employer wants everyone on Verizon.

Now I am starting to regret that. I have a Treo 700p. With Sprint, a Treo 650p. So, with Verizon I have to get the smart phone plan with data minutes. Or, whatever the hell they call it.

I’m paying an extra $45 a month more than I did with Sprint! For the exact same service! Well actually, I’m on the 1350 minutes plan with Verzion, I had 900 with Sprint. Verizon doesn’t have anything lower besides 450 minutes when you are on the Smartphone plan. But to me, its the equivalent plan. I don’t get anything extra out of the deal. And besides, The difference between 900 minutes and 1350 is not $45. They freakin rob you blind.

The coverage area I’m in really doesn’t seem to be at all better than Sprint. I get the same number of bars just about everywhere I’m at. Oh well.

 
 

If you follow Apple, you already know that there is a new campaign out there. I love these spots. It seems to piss a lot of people off, but damn are they funny. I come from the advertising industry and they are pure genious in both the explicit and the subliminal messages.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

Over at Ctr+Alt+Del they have posted a great spoof on the campaign. I laughed out loud in the middle of our quiet little office when I read the last frame.

 
 

Head up AssIf you are looking for a tutorial in how not to argue your point, check it out.

http://mac-sucks.com

Some baseless comments made by a child who is sick of his friends buying Macs.

Now, I use both windows and mac almost every day at my job. I find OS X and Mac hardware extremely elegant and of the highest quality, right down to the shipped packaging. I also find Windows does some things better. So I’m not exactly on one side of the fence or the other. But I really can’t stand mindless propaganda. So, let me go through their bullshit, point by point.

<Read on…>

 
 

We ate Chinese last night. I cracked open my fortune cookie to read:

A four wheeled adventure will bring you great happiness.

No shit!? Thanks, General Tsao!

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RoundCubeFor the longest time, I have offered my friends phatness.com email addresses. Everyone wanted one. No one kept one. The problem is that the webmail applications offered by hosting providers have never been able to compete with any of the free webmail providers out there. Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc. The closest we ever got was Horde. While it is light years ahead of what was out there, it just didn’t come close to the established providers.

Now, we have our answer. Round Cube is a webmail system that even in its pre-release, blows the doors off of everyone else. I’ve been using it now for a month and find it heavenly. There are a few bugs and missing features but I still use it. That’s how good it is.

 
 

I let phatness.com go by the wayside for the past odd 3 years. It was superceded by my career which sucked every bit of creative juice out of me. Well, I’m putting things back together.

Immediately available are the most recent photos from the past 2 years. I’ll be throwing the rest up later.

I also plan to get the old site’s graphics up for viewing purposes only (it’ll be put in a site “archive”). I’m working on a new look for the site. In the mean time, check out bastrds.com.