It just came to my attention that the text messaging function on my cell phone has now been activated. A holiday gift to me from Rogers AT&T. I was able to send a brief message (test) to my regular email address and also to send an email message to my cell phone from my computer. I also sent a brief message to my wife (Hi Hon, Love Tom) to her cell phone and just to make sure there is peace in the family I sent one to my daughter. That pretty much exhausts my sense of what can be done with this new method of communication. Does anyone on the list use this service? If so why? It is painfully slow to compose even the simplest message, something akin to setting the time on your VCR. Perhaps some of you out there can suggest good reasons for this service. I've seen the cool TV commercials where disarmingly casual young men warn each other from the horrors of attending a possible "chick flick" using their text messaging phones, or where two young lovers share messages from either end of a Greyhound bus. But at $.15 a pop one wonders. Why not just call the person up and talk? I suppose it makes the phone into a glorified pager, but I already have a voice mail feature on my cell phone to collect the wrong numbers that frequently catch me. I seem to have a number that was once had by a sales rep. at Zurich Life Insurance. He still gets a lot of calls.... er... I still get a lot of his calls on that number. His name is Neal. I hope we meet one day. I'll click my tongue and point my finger with my thumb straight up, in that classic sales rep sort of way, and say "Hi ya Neal, I've got yer number!" It would take 45 minutes to turn those seven words into a text message on the cell phone.
Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to y'all. Here's a link to tell you how to avoid killing yourself preparing that Butterball. Sorry if it's too late to help. http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/FoodSafety/foodsturkey.php#What Imagine the odds of survival if you were eating turkey on a Disney Cruise ship? Tom Cardston, Alberta www.matkin.com ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
