Cash or Plastic
At some point most of the world will be cashless — all transactions will be digital in some form. In addition to debit and credit cards we will soon be able to use our mobile phone to authenticate and authorize payments — even to vending machines. From my perspective, the sooner the better. Cashless transactions […]
Long Distance — Update No. 10
This is number 10 in a series of updates on “Long Distance”. What is long distance? When in Singapore or New Zealand or other parts of Southeastern Asia, you know you are a long way from New York — like 10,000 miles or so. Those places are a “long distance” away. But when it comes […]
Train Travel
Thanks to Wayne Jonas Bealer from Reading, Pennsylvania for forwarding a link to a very interesting study by the Christian Science Monitor about Amtrak. If you have any interest in train travel or the economics of train travel, you will find a lot of information on this site. You can click on a train route […]
Raising The Bar – Part 2
I don’t mean to pick on the telecommunications companies but they really make things hard to ignore. The day after the incident with Cingular, I received a letter in the mail from SBC saying "Your enrollment in the SBC EasyCharge program has been approved for the telephone number referenced above". Above my name it said […]
Raising The Bar
Cingular just sent an email with the bold title of "Raising the Bar". I wish. The email said "Your wireless bill is ready online. Account Number: ***-****7607. Phone Number: XXX-XXX-0000". The account number was not mine and the phone number obviously belonged to no one. But wait, it gets worse. My recent email from Vonage […]
