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fixed my ipod and found a wallet…

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that pretty much sums up the day.

got my relacement ipod battery for my 3G 20GB iPod
and after much wrangling, replaced the battery.

found someone’s wallet on the way home -
’twas a Drexel student’s
(found that out after 411ing the address on the drivers license, then calling the father)
left it at Creese center for him, don’t know whether or not he got it.

was late this morning due to a credit union run so that I could order
one of my meds (which I was completely out of) for overnight shipping.

still managed to have a positive balance after doing so.

we’ll see how everything goes from here…

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December 13th, 2007 at 11:30 am

Free SkypeOut dialing hack

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from VoIP Blog

In my recent post on a free 411 directory assistance service I stated that in theory you could use SkypeOut to dial 800-FREE411 and then have 800-FREE411 connect your call free of charge, but you’d still use up your SkypeOut minutes. I wrote:

Too bad Skype doesn’t charge less per minute for (toll free) 800 numbers - if they did then you could save money by always dialing though Free411.com’s service. Of course, that wouldn’t be very nice to Free411.com since they pay for the call. (when you dial their 800 number and they connect the call)


I thought about checking Skype’s website to see if they did indeed discount 800 numbers, but I was too busy to check and I figured one of my blog readers would “catch me” if I was wrong. Well, Rick Hultz, a prolific commenter on my blog, did just that.
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October 8th, 2005 at 11:59 pm