Friday Five
Sep. 16th, 2005 10:00 amWell, this one has some potential to be interesting. Let’s see what we get.
- Who is your mobile phone provider, and how many minutes are in your plan?
- I actually just reevaluated my plan, and decided to stay with Sprint, since their service is generally okay, and a known quantity. I changed from 300 weekday minutes to a measured service, so I don’t have a fixed number of minutes, and I changed my nights and weekends start time from 9pm to 7pm.
- What program do you primarily use for instant messaging?
- I use Trillian. I put up with its bugginess and UI idiosyncracies in order to get coverage on five different IM systems plus IRC. I just wish their stuff was better written.
- Who do you send and receive text messages from most?
- At home, where I do 83% of my instant message traffic, Xine, Jeanie, Rhonda, and Sheeri constitute approximately 52% of my IM traffic. At work, Xine, Jeanie, Matt, Inna, Greg, Will, and Dave represent 73% of my usage.
- What area code do you live in?
- My location used to be 617, but area codes are no longer tied to geography in this area.
- What year did you first get an e-mail address and do you still use it?
- My first email address was a numeric student account obtained in the fall of 1982. It expired about a year or two later, as I moved from that limited student account to a “vanity” account with full system privileges.