Operation Gadget

Operation Gadget

  • March 28 – April 3, 2005 Weekly Summary

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the fifth week of March 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…

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  • Why AT&T Wireless Had to Die

    Reading Time: 3 minutesLately I’ve been talking about buying two Treo 650s for my wife and me. We chose Cingular as our carrier and purchased the handsets from Amazon.com to take advantage of a very nice rebate offer. I started two new accounts for us, to separate the business use of my phone from Kathleen’s…

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  • Cingular Doesn’t Include SMS in Its PDA Data Plan

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteMartin O’Donnell sent me a test SMS message from his T-Mobile Sidekick II yesterday. When I received the message I replied, then I thought that I wasn’t sure how many SMS messages my new Cingular billing plan included, so I texted, “Let me find out about SMS and I’ll get back…

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  • Got Our Treo 650s Last Night

    Reading Time: 2 minutesKathleen and I got our Treo 650s last night. I didn’t think they were going to arrive yesterday, but UPS delayed a shipment status message that would have told me that the package was “out for delivery”. As a result, I arrived back at the Home Office late yesterday afternoon to find…

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  • Cingular Tops the Charts in Customer Complaints in 2004

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the combined Cingular and AT&T Wireless had the highest number of customer complaints of any U.S. mobile phone carriers in 2004, according to figures released by ConsumerReports.org. The Consumer Union filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Federal Communications Commission and obtained reports documenting…

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  • Secret Service Using Distributed Desktop Computing to Read Suspects’ Encrypted Data

    Reading Time: 2 minutesEarlier today FirstAdopter.com pointed out a Washington Post article that explains a new distributed desktop computing system called Distributed Networking Attack used to decrypt data belonging to criminal suspects. The article says that the Secret Service hopes to reduce the time necessary to find encryption keys by “combining computing power with detective…

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  • Which Cases Should We Buy for Our Treo 650s?

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I said to Kathleen, “You know, the Treo 650 doesn’t come with a case, so we’re going to have to choose cases for ourselves.” She said, “OK, let me know what the options are and I’ll pick one.” I think palmOne PDAs and communicators have the most developed accessories aftermarket…

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  • Officiating at the 12 & Under Tier II Nationals in Voorhees

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn Saturday I wrote that I was worried about staying in practice for my trip to the Chicago Showcase Hockey Tournament in two weeks. A couple of hours later I got a call from one of the senior administrators in the USA Hockey Atlantic District Officiating Program, offering me the opportunity…

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  • Fourth Week of March 2005 Workouts

    Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is a quick summary of the workouts I did last week: Monday, March 21: Biked 14.0 miles. First ride at this distance this season. Tuesday, March 22: Biked 14.3 miles (same course). Rode two minutes faster mainly due to less headwind. Wednesday, March 23: Officiated an exhibition hockey game between…

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