The stuff technology is made of. I don't think the frontliners manning the technological portals even begin to know what they are handling or spewing.
They can't explain optical, infrared and bluetooth technology. All of which are wireless anyway. So stop pulling the wool over my eyes, telling me bluetooth technology is a 10m range remote control, while it is true this is the commonest. This is a Class II power range and there is a Class I with a 100 metre sweep. Wireless optical isn't radio signals.
The ad touting the IAD as an integrated device for portable international phone calls with apparently unlimited overseas calls is phrased so incorrectly . A check reveals that it means only unlimited overseas call back home. It can also make calls nationally at someone's else home if the technical helpdesk is anything to go by, moi having called and listened to various versions.
Having undergone the ordeal of thrashing paper, it was hilarious to learn that I can't actually suppress my hardcopy bills to be sent to moi for my internet subscription or my bank account. This only adds to waste and most inanely, I could view them online. So why send moi a monthly fixed recurring bill in the case of my internet services?
It also makes me wonder why the IAD isn't a device for portable Internet instead, at the subscriber's expense and time. In fact, what is the use of the digital home? Why don't they even make it an even more integrated device by making it one with the IAD?
Because if the IAD technically plugs into any broadband, be it ADSN or a cable modem, it will plug into the digital home too. So what is its use if not for unlimited overseas calls as it claimed?
Being on the old technology, I have a modem and if I want to go wireless, I need a router. Now they have a all-in-one which is terrific. It saves on cluttering my floor space , littered as it is with cables, plugs, telephone jacks and adapters.
I am utterly disappointed with Popular. It used to have a rebate of a dollar every year for loyal membership dropping from a high of $10 to a low of $5.00 which plateaus at this level thereafter. When I tried renewing my membership, they told me it has been scrapped and I now have to start all over again at $10 flat every year minus the rebate. This is a betrayal. I would not have gone on the scheme if I knew.
It was the same too with ATM withdrawals where the former Big Four banks used to be linked and accepted each other's card for cash dispensing. Now to monopolise the market, national banks have gone solo but with an abundance of machines while the rest have colluded in smaller cliques of two or more, sparsely spread out. "Competition" has never been fairer.
Let me elaborate a little more on the tender system. If you want to buy, you want to buy at the lowest price (which somehow connotes cheap quality , slip-shod and unlasting) but you want to sell to the highest bidder (which smacks of avaricious profiteering without regards to the small time trader). Perhaps somewhere inbetween could be more equitable.
The ST had several very excellent writers with articles on the EU, Asean, regionalism , colonialism and dissent in Singapore . Kudos to these think-tanks who have given historical, new and interesting perspectives. Not forgetting most of the humour columnists and some other writers whom I may have forgotten to mention.
The yellow breasted olive sunbird is back. I haven't seen it for some time now. The last I saw it nmust have been ages. It came right back, twittering and perched on the ledge. I am not sure what news it brings me this time. My home garden has seen visitors of the second kind, ranging from potter wasp, honey bees and mynahs who peck at my foliage for building materials. It has been an attraction for the animalia.
Right, I look forward to the days ahead where I am going to detoxify myself of all the toxins coursing through my blood veins, in part due to encounters of the first kind. Will blog again sometime soon.
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