Kyle Thomas

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My iPhone Plan

If you live up here in Yellowknife and are any type of Apple fan you know that you can not have an iPhone up here on Rogers because there is no Rogers service up here.

Well I’m going south for the next 9 months and than again for another 8 after a short stint at home. What does this mean, well it means I could get an iPhone. I will be in an area that has Rogers service and am trying to make the decision about whether or not it is a good idea to actually get an iPhone.

See I could get one and get a 2 year plan which is roughly the amount of time I would be down there. Everything could be hunky dory. I would be able to do all the amazing things that it is capabile of doing. E-mail, Youtube, Music, Movies, Video Camera, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

The problem is the in between. I will be home for summer which is about 3 months and would have a useless phone. The one and only option I need to look into is calling up Ice Wireless, the only GSM network up here, and ask them what their roaming fee is (if they even support it). If the roaming fee is more than reasonable (which I’m will to bet it would be) I may see about getting a pay as you go sim card from them. I don’t know if they have them and I don’t know if I would have to jailbreak my iPhone to make it work.

I would also still be paying the monthly charge from Rogers while up north. As you see I still need to do some research to figure out if it is worth it. I hope it is because I would have so many uses for an iPhone.

Government Vs. My MacBook

I’m not going to get in to the details as to what I was doing but I will give you a quick recap.

I was going through parts of the Fedral Government website in the Business section or whatever it might be called looking for information on starting a business. The thing that drives me nuts about the government site is all the linking. You read one article which links to 10 other articles and each of those links to another 10 and so on. Call me stupid or challenged but that is confusing. I hate being directed around in circles by big websites. Did I find what I was looking for, No.

The next little issue that was pushing me over the edge was a form I was filling out online on the Government site. The form was for a business number but it seemed to be taking forever to respond to the server it was pulling and sending the information to. On top of me becoming impatient so was my computer because it started to freak out. It all of a sudden started to get glitchy and freeze up for 2 or 3 seconds at a time. At that point the fan was spinning at worp speed and sounded horrible. Then as if the computer said that’s it I have had enough and flicked an internal off switch, it dropped the Wireless connection and froze up. I was so mad I actually said “I want to throw you(my macbook) at the government” whatever that means.

I did not throw the computer. I did although let it cool down while I did the same. I then plugged it in and all was good again except I did not go back to the Government site. I didn’t think I will worry about it for now.

That was how 5 minutes of my evening went, how did yours go?