Earl 360 03/19/2007
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones – New York Times Annotated
- :O - post by eemorningwood
If you have only one telephone with one phone number, this column won’t be of
any interest to you. Skip to another article, you eccentric you.
paragraph
A new service called GrandCentral can unify your cellphone with
phones at work and home.
You can also play your messages on the Web, at
GrandCentral.com, and even ask to be notified by e-mail.
But first, count your blessings. Millions of people have more than one phone
number these days — home, work, cellular, hotel room, vacation home, yacht — and
with great complexity comes great hassle. You have to check multiple answering
machines. You miss calls when people try to reach you on your cell when you’re
at home (or the other way around). You send around e-mail messages at work that
say, “On Thursday from 5 to 8:30, I’ll be on my cell; for the rest of the
weekend, call me at home.”
3 ‘Jeopardy’ contestants end up tied – Yahoo! News Annotated
- Jeopardy for Special Ed
- post by eemorningwood
NEW YORK – All those years of answers and questions, and it’s never happened
before on “Jeopardy!” What is a three-way tie, Alex?
The Web smiley’s motto: Grin and bear it | CNET News.com Annotated
- says it all. - post by eemorningwood
Author Vladimir Nabokov said in a 1969 New York Times interview
that “there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile–some sort of
concave mark, a supine round bracket.”
Now, nearly four decades later, there is just such a typographical
symbol– 
, or for the minimalists, and it’d be tough to find
a tech-savvy person who hasn’t leaned on it. There’s also a special
typographical symbol for a frown– 
— and one for a cool dude in
sunglasses — B-) — and one for a wink — 
. There’s even a
typographical sign for wearing a baseball cap– d=D.
