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I read an article on slashdot today (i never read the article links anymore, the comments are usually just as informative) about how people were predicting ipods sales were finally going to slow down. I suppose it might be related to how people are practically throwing them away in giveaways, etc. I dunno.
It made me start thinking on whether I'd like to buy one. I really don't use an mp3 player. I have my creative zen jukebox (and I'll tell you how much I hate it, too) and it's sitting at home ontop of my iriver cd player. (such a violently passionate love affair I had with it)
I posted a comment saying it was silly of me to commit to a $1800 machine over a $300 one, but I guess I get a lot more use out of this laptop than i would an mp3 player.
(did you know, I feel weird tossing the word ipod around like it's generic noun candy? I don't think I've typed the word so much before as I have today in these posts).
Anyways, it's just a thought.
Here's a story from this morning. It's not all that entertaining, but it's a nice example of how there are some e-mails in the world that are not scams.
I get up this morning and check my centurytel email in thunderbird(I need to import those emails sometime. Is this possible yet? I remember having difficulty with it before) and I noticed a mail from a certain compnay about a credit card. Now, I did apply for one a few weeks ago, in the hopes that I could use it more effectively in france than my parents card, but I never got an e-mail confirmation as I accidentally reloaded the page in the attempt to select the option to recieve an e-mail confirmation. The e-mail today informed me of the last four digits of my so-called credit card ("oh really, I don't even know these digits, how can these scammers know!?") and Thunderbird politely informed me it feared this message might be a scam. I hovered over the link in the mail and inspected the url. It looked legit, but scammers are excellent fakirs. I clicked it and looked at the layout and noticed it was a secure site then did a domain whois. But it wasn't until I asked my dad over aim whether or not the card had arrived in the mail, gave him my permission to federally violate the envelope, and asked him what the last four numbers were that I was satisfied that this was the real deal.
Sadly the e-mail was an offer to be able to deal with the card on-line, but it required all the digits of the thing itself to use :] Luckily stu and I are going home this weekend, so we can revel in the $800 of freedom this thing will afford!
(it's a "student" flavored card, so the interest rates are killer*. Fortunately I have an account with the bank of dad, and I think that so long as I dutifully subtract the totals from our ledgers, he will happily sign the checks on time. Checking accounts are overrated! Gosh!
*my family tends to use credit cards as a convenience rather than a means of actually extending their buying power; a most wise decision imo)
oh, and before I forget, congratuatlions to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
flyingmullet for being added to my friends list! (oh no i hope his entries are interesting :OOOO)
It made me start thinking on whether I'd like to buy one. I really don't use an mp3 player. I have my creative zen jukebox (and I'll tell you how much I hate it, too) and it's sitting at home ontop of my iriver cd player. (such a violently passionate love affair I had with it)
I posted a comment saying it was silly of me to commit to a $1800 machine over a $300 one, but I guess I get a lot more use out of this laptop than i would an mp3 player.
(did you know, I feel weird tossing the word ipod around like it's generic noun candy? I don't think I've typed the word so much before as I have today in these posts).
Anyways, it's just a thought.
Here's a story from this morning. It's not all that entertaining, but it's a nice example of how there are some e-mails in the world that are not scams.
I get up this morning and check my centurytel email in thunderbird(I need to import those emails sometime. Is this possible yet? I remember having difficulty with it before) and I noticed a mail from a certain compnay about a credit card. Now, I did apply for one a few weeks ago, in the hopes that I could use it more effectively in france than my parents card, but I never got an e-mail confirmation as I accidentally reloaded the page in the attempt to select the option to recieve an e-mail confirmation. The e-mail today informed me of the last four digits of my so-called credit card ("oh really, I don't even know these digits, how can these scammers know!?") and Thunderbird politely informed me it feared this message might be a scam. I hovered over the link in the mail and inspected the url. It looked legit, but scammers are excellent fakirs. I clicked it and looked at the layout and noticed it was a secure site then did a domain whois. But it wasn't until I asked my dad over aim whether or not the card had arrived in the mail, gave him my permission to federally violate the envelope, and asked him what the last four numbers were that I was satisfied that this was the real deal.
Sadly the e-mail was an offer to be able to deal with the card on-line, but it required all the digits of the thing itself to use :] Luckily stu and I are going home this weekend, so we can revel in the $800 of freedom this thing will afford!
(it's a "student" flavored card, so the interest rates are killer*. Fortunately I have an account with the bank of dad, and I think that so long as I dutifully subtract the totals from our ledgers, he will happily sign the checks on time. Checking accounts are overrated! Gosh!
*my family tends to use credit cards as a convenience rather than a means of actually extending their buying power; a most wise decision imo)
oh, and before I forget, congratuatlions to
flyingmullet for being added to my friends list! (oh no i hope his entries are interesting :OOOO)
