Archives: 2012 December
The Hapless American Traveler or Your Debit Card in Peril
December 31st, 2012, No Comments
Or should I say, helpless? Sometimes it may seem that way but, in the end, truth generally wins out although it helps if you have a working telephone. Trying to add some vitamin D to my winter health regimen, I headed from London to Gibralter. That left me without a working telephone. Believe it or […]
The Refugee Within
December 26th, 2012, No Comments
Here in the UK, the news has been full of reports about the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. I’ve worked in many New York City school programs and experienced my share of bomb threats along with occasional intrusions by unstable individuals. Still, when working my very first teaching job in Connecticut back in 1979, the […]
The MYSTERY of SIM CARDS for MOBILES in the EU
December 9th, 2012, No Comments
Has anyone ever penetrated the ‘MYS’tery surrounding that bizarre byte of technology called the SIM card? The complexity of the technology behind those bits of cardboard is only second to the perplexing contractual obligations that accompany them in the EU! I’m developing a novel phobia which I’ll name ‘symphonia’ or fear of phony, but binding, […]
