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De Clarke wrote:
> for my first 6 mo to a year of "retirement" I will still be
> oncall to the old firm as a consultant. in order to ensure
> that I am accessible by voice, TM and email even when
> wandering in the scrap yard or anchored out, I am thinking
> of asking the company to invest in a 1 year contract for
> some kind of phone/pda device like the Treo, Blackberry,
> Ipaq.
Well, I don't have a cell phone, just a cellular telephone modem from
Verizon. I have been pleased with it. It gives me "broadband"
connectivity in major towns (like Salem and Portland in Oregon) and a
somewhat lower speed almost everywhere else. If you can get your Verizon
cell phone to work, you can connect your computer, too, using Verizon's
network.
I subscribe to an ISP-independent e-mail service (see
www.netaddress.net), from which I get an e-mail account that I can check
both at home and at work. (At home, I have a cable modem with
comcast.net, and an e-mail account that came with the comcast service. I
have the netaddress account (james.h.maynard AT usa.net) collect the
e-mail from any other accounts I may have and make it available to me.
Thyis gives me the ability to both recever and SEND e-mail wherever I
have connectivity to the Internet.
I think $80 per month is a reasonable price to pay for this. Of course,
if I also had a Verizon cell-phone, they would give me a discount on the
iInternet connectivity.
I am able to listen for hours at a time to streaming audio from the BBC,
via my Verizon modem and my computer.
--
James Maynard
Salem, Oregon, USA
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