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12:54PM Saturday Oct 31 2009 by Karl Bode
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That elusive beast known as the end of the work week has arrived. We're off into the great unknown. Mind looking after the house in the comment section below?

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EVERYBODYS

Working for the weekend!!! Woohoo!!

Go lions.

Edit, 4pm EST Sunday: Damn you lions.

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Re: EVERYBODYS

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E82ozXyNjk


I couldn't resist!...lol
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Re: EVERYBODYS

said by tvtek See Profile :

(youtube clip)
couldn't resist!...lol
Many years ago I saw these guy in concert!! Oh the 80's....
Have a great weekend!!

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Re: EVERYBODYS

said by backfeed See Profile :

said by tvtek See Profile :

(youtube clip)
couldn't resist!...lol
Many years ago I saw these guy in concert!! Oh the 80's....
Have a great weekend!!

I had the chance to see them in Santa Cruz California, but the weekend they were here my wife was sick.

Have a great weekend too!
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Shutting of my iPhone

Does anyone know if you can still use the iPhone after having
it shut off? I'm sick of paying the mobile data fee, but would still
like to use it as iPod, calendar, wifi stuff. I appreciate any info.

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Re: Shutting of my iPhone

said by kvlou See Profile :

Does anyone know if you can still use the iPhone after having
it shut off? I'm sick of paying the mobile data fee, but would still
like to use it as iPod, calendar, wifi stuff. I appreciate any info.
I believe you can use it as an Ipod and the wifi will work. The phone will be crippled once the Sim is de-authorized.

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Re: Shutting of my iPhone

said by NY Tel See Profile :

said by kvlou See Profile :

Does anyone know if you can still use the iPhone after having
it shut off? I'm sick of paying the mobile data fee, but would still
like to use it as iPod, calendar, wifi stuff. I appreciate any info.
I believe you can use it as an Ipod and the wifi will work. The phone will be crippled once the Sim is de-authorized.
I guess pulling the sim card out now will answer that question?
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Re: Shutting of my iPhone

said by tvtek See Profile :

said by NY Tel See Profile :

said by kvlou See Profile :

Does anyone know if you can still use the iPhone after having
it shut off? I'm sick of paying the mobile data fee, but would still
like to use it as iPod, calendar, wifi stuff. I appreciate any info.
I believe you can use it as an Ipod and the wifi will work. The phone will be crippled once the Sim is de-authorized.
I guess pulling the sim card out now will answer that question?
As another poster correctly noted, it then becomes an ipod touch which is really an iphone with no phone.
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Everything will work just fine, it just becomes an iPod Touch.

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said by kvlou See Profile :

Does anyone know if you can still use the iPhone after having
it shut off? I'm sick of paying the mobile data fee, but would still
like to use it as iPod, calendar, wifi stuff. I appreciate any info.
You will lose all cellular capabilities(phone, 3G data access etc), but everything else should still work fine.

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Remember to turn on airplane mode, or it will continue to power the cellular part SIM inserted or not. Wifi & bluetooth work while in airplane mode. You can also get a blank SIM in case you ever want to make emergency calls, all other cell features would be disabled in that case. iPhone i believe comes with a blank SIM for this very reason. Also remember that GPS won't work because it needs a data connection & wifi isnt very useful out on the road.

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Re: Shutting of my iPhone

said by FastiBook See Profile :

Remember to turn on airplane mode, or it will continue to power the cellular part SIM inserted or not. Wifi & bluetooth work while in airplane mode. You can also get a blank SIM in case you ever want to make emergency calls, all other cell features would be disabled in that case. iPhone i believe comes with a blank SIM for this very reason. Also remember that GPS won't work because it needs a data connection & wifi isnt very useful out on the road.

- A
But with Wifi in your house it can help you map the trip from the living room to the basement.

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Yes it will work and I would recommend leaving in the unactivated sim just so you don't keep getting reminders that there is no sim.

Also if you do upgrade it via Itunes after you have deactivated the line with ATT just use PwnageTool or any of the activators to reactivate it so you can use the new features and not get stuck up with it asking to activate the phone.

The trick is that you just need to jailbreak it from there on out if you are going to keep upgrading the phone while it is off of ATT service. That's why you want to keep the sim card around and why you want to use the Pwnage Tool to do it. I used my iphone as an ipod touch for awhile and that is what I did to make sure I could use it with out being on ATT.
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Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing

From the movie Home Fries.

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7a35GnfPTc


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And in the spirit of the Weekend....

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kNP3jogfek


Happy Halloween everyone

Vincent Price FTW

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Re: And in the spirit of the Weekend....

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=0thH3qnHTbI


Yet another video in the spirit of the weekend!
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Re: And in the spirit of the Weekend....

Happy Halloween
Watch the Video:
»sendables.jibjab.com/view/i6ywaNILMYQUz6du


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Re: And in the spirit of the Weekend....

Is it me or does Mahmoud Ahmadinejad always look semi-stoned?
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Re: And in the spirit of the Weekend....

I suspect he is always stoned, in some way or another. Sort of like hitler was... always jacked up on "meds".

I think it is more of a mad Persian type of look though. I personally think he is a smart guy but very stuck in his own ways and way off on the global way of doing things.
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Heres some more

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4uxIo4t7xM

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvEgxpDcvM

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ICANN OKs non-Latin alphabets for domain names and email adr

This does simplify things for many, many countries. But the downside is a potential segmenting of the internet and even more opportunities for malware purveyors.

»tech.yahoo.com/news/pcworld/2009···getheweb
The decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that Web sites written in Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and other non-ASCII character sets will be able to have their Internet domain names displayed in their own languages truly makes the Web a global worldwide network. No longer will entire countries be forced to use Latin-based characters and their Web addresses and e-mail addresses will now be as recognizable as their telephone book.

"The net result will be an expansion of the Internet in terms of resources and users. Small local businesses are likely to benefit as their Internet and e-mail address can now be in their own local language," according to a writer for Asia Times Online.

Yet on the other hand, the new names carry risks for new security concerns and general user confusion. Some fear the Web might grow increasingly fragmented into areas easily accessible only to those conversant in local languages. But ICANN's actions, although well intended, also raise nuts-and-bolts questions that are yet to be answered. How will you be able to type the domain names of international Web sites when your keyboard doesn't support their character sets? It's true that you can download fonts used in these languages, along with "virtual keyboard layouts" that spare you the need to buy separate physical keyboards. It looks as though we could see the development of a whole new class of Web domains that most people won't be able to get to easily -- even though they might be able to find those Web sites with a search engine. Certainly language translation services and technology may be the biggest winners with today's news. I predict both will flourish along with an international land grab for variations of the word "sex" dot-com.

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Mistake, feel free to delete. /apologies.

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Re: ICANN OKs non-Latin alphabets for domain names and email adr

This is a bummer. It would of really been better to use the Technological edge to make the entire world accept English as a universal language. Kinda like the international ATC system (Air Traffic Control.)

The fragmenting of the Web begins.
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Re: ICANN OKs non-Latin alphabets for domain names and email adr

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This is a bummer. It would of really been better to use the Technological edge to make the entire world accept English as a universal language. Kinda like the international ATC system (Air Traffic Control.)

The fragmenting of the Web begins.
A lot of people (Michio Kaku for one) believe that English already has a foothold and will eventually become the universal language. Others will survive, but English will be spoken everywhere primarily.

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Mind Trick

Click for full size
»antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091004.html

"Are square A and B the same color? They are. Are too..."

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Re: Mind Trick

Wow. No way. Yes way. Wow. WTF.


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Re: Mind Trick

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Wow. No way. Yes way. Wow. WTF.


Cool huh? I didn't believe either it until I cut out those squares and placed them side by side.

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Re: Mind Trick

Here they are and I still don't believe it.




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Re: Mind Trick

Amazing...

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Hah. I had to do the same thing. Nice one.

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Have a good one.

Guess i will sit back and play some video games this weekend.

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Re: Have a good one.

I just picked up Forza 3 the other night. Going to bust it open in a few minutes to see how it is.

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Re: Have a good one.

let me know how it is.

Im waiting on the 10th of next month then i can play xbox.

Just bought a wii having fun with golf.

just bough from comp See Profile his 60g ps3 so im very happy.

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Re: Have a good one.

I'll IM you in a few days with regard to F3.

As for Wii, it's great. Have a blast with it!

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Always a good plan for the weekend, my friend finally picked up Team Fortress 2 for the pc so now I'm heading back into that.
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Halloween!

Is my parents anniversary. and I am going to a party..... Am I a bad person????

Anyway I have to finish my essay, its on VoIP so wish me luck.

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Weekend !

Ya ! Happy Halloween.
Set back your clocks at 2am Sunday morning.
Change the batteries in your smoke detectors.
Change the Baking soda in the Fridg.
Change the...
Ah the hell with it. Go back to work, there's less to do.

Happy Weekend all !!
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BlackBerry storm software update

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I updated my storm 2 days ago and the difference is night & day. If you have a storm I highly recommend this update. It really is like a new phone. You won't be dissapointed.

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No more basement flood

had minor flooding in the basement earlier today. Not bad compared to some other people I have heard about around town.

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»www.youtube.com/watch?v=OegzI5lweOo

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Vacation, vacation, vacationing

Well, I just got back from Mexico last week (Saturday) and was working all week. Had a bout with some kind of bug that had me squirting Hersheys for a couple of days. It started Monday at work a little after 10 a.m. It's funny how I felt my body literally going downhill in a matter of hours. I had no choice but to stay because I carpooled with my roommate. I had to take Tuesday off but was feeling good enough to go Wednesday. I just couldn't go up stairs, just down. I would use the downstairs bathroom for more privacy.

Well, I looking forward to my next vacation in about 1 1/2 weeks. I start on November 11th (Veterans Day) and it finishes December 2nd. In that one, I'll be driving cross country (again!! ) to Florida to drop off my mother's car to my niece.

After all that time off, I still have left over for another two weeks which I will be planning for when I come back in December .
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Wish me luck....

A while back I posted that I finally got a job (I guess this was back in July/August). I work for a company that makes Heart Shunts, Vessel Harvesting devices,etc.

I do QA work for them. I come in early, stay late when asked too and I think I'm a "team player" (arhhh corp speak!).

So anyways, we had a meeting with the Supervisor 2 weeks ago and he said that the company is prepared to hire 80% of us. I like to think that I'd be hired as I'm one of 2 QA inspectors. We were told that the hiring process should commence within the first 2 weeks of November.

It would be nice to be hired permanently as I'd get a bump up in pay (I'm only a temp now), medical benefits, sick and personal time,vacation time and I suppose a 401k.

So wish me luck...I'd like to be part of that 80% that get's the nod/the thumbs up,etc.
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Re: Cullman Liquidation

Made by these guys, who make the best commercials around: »ilovelocalcommercials.com/

They earlier made the Cuban Gynecologist ad:

»www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b5CKSqlz60

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Those guys are from my area. Hilarious.

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The shining...

Is on, good movie.

Hope everyone enjoys their extra hour of sleep, i know i am, whenever i get to sleep.

Now ads about life insurance. To quote a line from said ad "it costs just as much to bury a woman as a man".

Now an ad about debt consolidation. You know a country's economy is shaky when you need hundreds of these companies.

Ok, movie back on. enjoy sunday & happy november folks!

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good game for the Iowa Hawkeyes yesterday. congrats guys. 9-0! lets make it 10 next weekend against Northwestern!
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