RANT: Certain behaviors are rude!

Saturday, August 26, 2006

http://www.gadgetspage.com/pda-phone/six-gadget-ettiquette-tips.html

Six Gadget Ettiquette Tips
PDAs and Phones
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Gadgets go with us everywhere now. Our cell phones are cameras, gaming devices and even Internet portals. Some of us have a utility belt full of gadgets and they can interfere with our life in ways that ettiquette gurus would have never thought of twenty years ago. Here are six gadget ettiquette tips to keep you from making common mistakes:

1. Only have cell phone conversations in private.

When you are talking on your cell phone, you are not in a phone booth. The conversation can be so involving that you may not realize that there are other people around you, but I assure you, they are. If you are in a public place, the best option is to find a private place to have a conversation. If that is not possible, make sure you keep your voice low and cut the conversation off as quickly as possible (”Look, I’m on a bus and I can’t talk right now. Let me call you back.”).

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Almost as annoying as drivers talking on the cell, is being in a meeting when everyone is playing with the berry, or being on a conference call; hearing the keyboard tapping away, or on that same conference call, when someone’s participation is needed, and the moderator calls out the name, only to hear “sorry what was that i was multitasking”.

It’s all rude!

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LIBERT: A “ceasefire” ain’t a good solution.

Saturday, August 26, 2006

I commented at:

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/08/israel-lebanon-and-south-brunswick.html#comments

Specifically to the cease fire concept.

As with most hard questions, the truth is somewhere hard to find. A cease fire, while laudible in saving lives, settles nothing. A pause allows BOTH side time to regroup, reorg, and resupply. There is something to be said for knock down drag out fight that ends when one says “uncle”. At least something gets settled.

Perhaps, as the Egypt Israeli Six Day showed the way, it can lead to “peace”. As we see from WW1, the “armistice” (a glorified cease fire), setup WW2 and it’s abuses. Whereas McArthur’s unconditional surrender, led to Japan being our “buddy”.

For my own policy, I say the US policy should be MYOB. Stay out of other people’s fights. A lot of the problems there are due in a large part to America’s almost-random interventionist policy. First we like Sadam, then we topple him. Taliban good to oppose the USSR, bad when we don’t need them.

Free trade with everyone; troops stay at the water’s edge.

And, it’s “your paper” run it as you see fit. Anyone who doesn’t like it should set up a competing effor and see how easy it is. In this country, we seem to have a lot of Monday Morning Quarterbacks. To them I say “quit griping and do something about it”! When I have had enough, I won’t subscribe any more. That’s the American way. The free marketplace. Where everyone gets to vote with their pocketbook!

P.S. I still have a gripe with the use of the word “democracy” as anb ideal. Democracy is two wolves and lamb voting on what’s for dinner. A republic means that everyone has INALIENABLE RIGHTS! Let’s be worthy of what those dead old white guys created for us. “A repulic if you can keep it!” We haven’t done so well since 1860. And it’s really gone down hill since 1913. And lately, it been dropping like rock in a well.

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TECH: NIKON COOLPIC P2 … don’t buy it for the wireless feature

Saturday, August 26, 2006

http://www.nikon.ca/products/coolpixp2/

I have come to the conclusion after wasting a lot of time on the “time saving” wireless network connection of the camera that: playing with it, depending upon it, or even buying the camera for it (which I did) was dumb. I bought it thru Amazon (and got screwed on the Amazon Credit Card discount, but that’s another story!) because of the positive user ratings. Now I wonder if I was scammed. The camera works, but the wireless hasn’t worked for a long time. I continue to play with it stupidly believing that as an injineer, I can make anything work. The software feels like a beta version written by amateurs. The camera sits there trying to connect and doesn’t. I’m now installing version 1.1.1 of the utilities. I think I’ll tell everyone I know about my non-wireless wireless camera. Arghhh! PS the canadian site is easier to use and faster than the us one. go figure? Double Argh!

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