{"id":347,"date":"2006-05-02T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T14:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2006-05-02T11:21:46","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T16:21:46","slug":"ringa-ding-ding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2006\/05\/02\/ringa-ding-ding\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringa ding ding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It irritates me when it rings, and at our house, it rings <em>a lot<\/em>.  Leah&#8217;s a phone person, which is fine.  She likes to talk, period, but she&#8217;s also very close to her family and friends, most of whom live out of town, so she&#8217;s frequently on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer e-mail or even IM.  I&#8217;m not typically someone who pays much attention to the substance of television ads, but I saw a couple recently that got me thinking.  The first was an ad for&#8230;I think it was Cingular wireless (in a cruel twist of Heisenbergian fate, I can either pay attention to the name of the advertiser or the substance of the ad, not both), which has a neat feature whereby you can look at your celly&#8217;s display and see which of your contacts is online and available.  It&#8217;s a marriage of IM and the phone, and it&#8217;s a feature that gets me one step closer to owning a cellular phone.<\/p>\n<p>The other ad was for Mediacom, which is the company that provides my cable TV and Internet services.  They&#8217;re running a special now where people who have cable and Internet service through them can get local and long distance phone service for $30\/mo.  That&#8217;s half what we&#8217;re now paying Qwest and AT&#038;T.  Best part is, all I had to do is call Mediacom, and they&#8217;ll contact Qwest and AT&#038;T to let them know that I&#8217;ll no long require their services (it&#8217;s like having an agent).  We get to keep our phone number.  And we still get caller ID, voicemail, and call waiting.  All for the $30 monthly fee.  Until I can get Leah used to the idea of using a VoIP setup at home, this&#8217;ll save us a couple bucks a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It irritates me when it rings, and at our house, it rings a lot. Leah&#8217;s a phone person, which is fine. She likes to talk, period, but she&#8217;s also very close to her family and friends, most of whom live out of town, so she&#8217;s frequently on the phone. I prefer e-mail or even IM. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-misc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-5B","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}