I’ll have to research this issue further: My cell phone bills are paid automatically online. If the Big V wants to charge me $2 for that service, then I can once again resort to having them send me the bill via snail mail. Given the size of my account, and the number of pages for each line, I don’t think that will save them any money. Still, it will be more convenient for me not having to pay $2/month for online billing.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

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The average size of the most popular web sites is rapidly approaching 1MB per page. That’s huge. No wonder it takes so long to load some pages.

The problem is compounded when you consider the popularity of mobile devices. Loading up a 1MB web page on your cell phone, for example, could be 0.5% of your monthly data allowance. Visit that site a few times per day, every day a month, and you can see how web page bloat would become an issue.

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Apparently, the thieves are more interested in snatching up an iPhone over your beloved Android phone — or even the once prized Blackberry.

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They’ve been successful in Australia, but the US Phone companies are apparently worried about offending thieves or something. I just don’t get it.

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A lot of people have noticed that the Droid X keyboard is flakey. Not the Swipe keyboard, but the multi-touch (standard) keyboard. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.

Well, apparently Motorola and Verizon are aware of that, or finally admitting to it, or something. A fix is due out early next week.

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Microsoft is preparing to sell Windows 8 this week. Not to you, of course, but to its big customers.
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In Idaho, where I dwell, our State Supernintendo has introduced a plan to bring laptops into K-12 classroom. I stand opposed, even though I’m a high-tech guy and I love gizmos. That’s because I just don’t think it’s going to work.

As the son of a teacher and brother to a college professor, I’ve got to tell you: Nothing replaces a good, solid teacher in the classroom.

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Continuing this morning’s post on Windows 8 and the new Ribbon interface for the file Explorer, the link below goes to Microsoft’s development blog site. It provides an excellent survey of the history of file management on the Windows GUI for the past several hundred years.

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The Explorer is the name of the Windows file manager, also called Windows Explorer but not the same thing as Internet Explorer.
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Once upon a time, download.com (I’m not linking to the site) was a reputable place to visit and pick up solid, virus-free, bloatware-downloads. It may still have the downloads. I’m pretty sure they’re virus-free. But the bloatware? Well, that comes in a wrapper.
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