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This, my dear readers is a telephone.  It has one function – you pick up that funky looking handle on the top and hold it to your ear.  Then you grab that doohickey on the side and crank it up.  Once completed, you can speak to someone on other end.  We refer to this procedure as making a “call”.

Apart from this “call” functionality, this object is nothing more than a paper weight – or something for braining your next burglar.  My point, that is perilously close to drowning in my sarcasm, is that the object has one function.  It’s a telephone.  That’s what it does and even in 1896, it did it pretty well (although Rikstelefon is no longer in business in Sweden).

A few days ago, a friend of mine was complaining that his GPS running application on his Iphone didn’t work perfectly – he wasn’t getting absolutely accurate readings while jogging… (cough) His phone was not giving him accurate GPS readings while jogging? This wasn’t even a complaint about the GPS while calling.

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This one is for my wife, who never seems to understand exactly what I find so fascinating about blogs and the web. My theory? She just hasn’t found her blog-addiction yet. So like the socially responsible drug pusher of technology that I often (always) am, here are some blogs for the lady friends…
~ab
Perez Hilton: Celebrity gossip and other “news”.
Corporette: For the overachieving business woman in the workplace (even has fashion tips and sale scoops).
Confessions of a pioneer woman: A rather silly (and yet humorous blog) about farm life.
Cute Overload: A blog designed to make women go awwwwwww and men keel over vomiting…
Post Secret: A blog where people post their secrets and, in true voyeuristic glory, we read them and chuckle.
Passive Aggressive Notes: Exactly what it sounds like…