Saturday, August 28, 2004
Dear Valued Customer
Dear Valued Customer, You Are a Loser, by Rick Broadhead, who states it was "born out of my attempts to document and catalog some of the strangest and most memorable technological oddities of all time," gets a review on Wired:
Take, for instance, the case of the Ukrainian businessman who put 50 new pagers -- a gift for his employees -- in the back seat of his car and then promptly crashed into a lamppost when they all began beeping at the same time. The culprit? A welcome message sent by the pager company to each of the pagers.
Though it hasn't caused an accident yet, I do find the messages continuously sent out by mobile operators more than irritating. While away from the UK and on roaming, messages seem to land every few hours, for example when the operator changes as I move around town, or when my home operator wants me to buy into its 'cheap' evening calls 'home' each day. Sometimes it's such an irritation that I decide to switch off.
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