Tag: sms
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The Route of a Text Message
With each tap, a small electrical current passes from the screen to her hand. Because electricity flows easily through human bodies, sensors on the phone register a change in voltage wherever her thumb presses against the screen. But the world is messy, and the phone senses random fluctuations in voltage across the rest of the …
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One Hundred And Sixty
Dan reminisces about old mobile phones, text messages, and those 160-character limits we learned to work around. Twitter could learn from this...
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Searching For A Virgin
GMail's Contacts search surprises Dan by returning an unexpected result. Also, Dan is a beautiful person: his mobile phone says so.
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Beware: Necrophiliac Paramedics!
If Dan is killed on his way to work and his lifeless body is raped by a necrophiliac paramedic, it's JTA's fault. You read it here first.
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Hooray! I’m Sexy! Official!
Just got a text message from Liz:
Stay sexy! Lx
Not sure if that's supposed to be for me or not... hmm......
Update (20 March 2012) - Crosslink: Not long after I originally wrote this post, Liz wrote about sending these texts out.
Update (23 March 2019): To commemorate the 15th anniversary of the "Stay sexy!" text, … -
Orange Gives Me 80p For No Apparent Reason
Today, Orange sent me a text message apologising for charging me for two picture messages earlier this year, and have apparently credited me 80p as a gesture of compensation. The Register reports that this has happened to others, too, but I can't help but feel that Orange's mistake is even larger than they thought it …
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Easter Break
I'm sitting doing some work on a web site for one of our clients, and Reb (you know, the ex-girlfriend) sends me another text message:
you around for easter? xx
As it happens, I won't be. I could go visit my family for Easter, but this would result in two things happening:
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A Message From Reb
I received an interesting text message from my ex-girlfriend Reb today. It read:
I was thinking, you know how you used to say i could have your diaries when you died. can i still? not that i wish you dead or anything, i was just wondering.
Yeh; sure - it sounds like you love me …