May 2010
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Dumbphone on Google Voice
Another trick for using a dumbphone with Google Voice is text messages. If you receive a text from someone who texted your Google number, that sender’s real number isn’t rendered as the sender on your dumbphone — it’s aliased by some number belonging to Google. But don’t fret, if you call that Google number the text seems to come from, your call be forwarded to the...
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Send a fax long-distance from your office machine...
Long-distance restrictions are for the birds, assuming your Google Voice number is local.
Where xxx-xxx-xxxx is your number, yyyy is your passcode, and zzz-zzz-zzzz is the number you want to send to:
(9) xxx xxx xxxx P * yyyy P 2 P zzz zzz zzzz #
Drop the 9 if you’re not office folk who need to nine out to the outside line. This also works on any phone that isn’t attached to your...
“I’ve developed a new philosophy - I only dread one day at a time.”
– Charlie Brown (via kari-shma)
D.C. Critical Mass
I tagged along with some folks to ride with Critical Mass. We raced from Vienna, Va., along the venerable Washington and Old Dominion Trail and the Martha Custis Memorial Trail to D.C., crossed the Potomac at the Francis Scott Key Bridge, weaved through traffic in Georgetown on our way to Dupont Circle, where the ride began.
First things first, I rode into circle a little concerned by any event...
“The seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus wearing a blue tunic draped over one...”
– The Virginian-Pilot via WaPo.