Guinness World Record?

January 13th, 2009 omo

I got this link at work.

The sub title for that article is

OMG! 14,528 MESSAGES IN A MONTH!

OMG indeed.

This Californian teenager of 13 texted that many message during her family plan’s last billing period, resulting in a shocked dad (who himself texts at around 900 a month).

If you’re doing the math, that’s just a tad over 20 messges an hour. If you limit yourself to texting 8 hours a day, that’s just one text a minute, or one text every 2 minutes if you go for 16 hours. Not bad at all. That’s 484 messages a day.

The bill was over 400 pages long, so this crazy texting teenager cost AT&T more in postage than actual telecom costs, probably.

There are something like 50 million teenagers (based on 2000′s census numbers) in America, so if all of them are texting maniacs like this girl, that clocks in 24 billion text messages a month. If just a quarter of that is inter-carrier… OMG.

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Seeking Part-time Software QA

May 21st, 2008 omo

Want to work for Realnetworks alongside with me?

The position is a software QA dig, 20-40 hours a week job. Can be part or full-time. It’s technically an intern position for 6 month term, although there’s wiggle room to turn it into something more if we like you. There’s not much in terms of benefits besides what is available for all employees at the site. The office is in midtown Manhattan and between the Holland Tunnel and Penn Station.

Applicants should be at least college students with a computer/technical background. Preferably computer engineering. Knowledge of telecommunication protocols (mostly in layer 4) is definitely a plus. It will help if you know how to use a CLI and if you can get around SQL. Of course prior experience in QA is a big plus too. If you’re out of college, even better.

Pay is not great for a full-time job like this, but pretty good if you are looking for a part-time job. The position is very flexible with days off as long as you request them reasonably ahead of time.

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O Bother, Thou Art Here?

January 18th, 2008 omo

Just messing with some 2.3 plugins and crap like that. Go go downtime at work.

I should fill out the about page too huh.

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