Animal Control on Speed Dial

One of the best things about my Samsung A900 that I complain about a lot is that I can send my address book from my desktop to it over Bluetooth. This has allowed me to put all the names and numbers that I've collected into my phone even if I rarely use them (I did exclude some). Several years ago I saw a dog walking around the street (busy street with 2 lanes in each direction), so I called my wife and had her give me the number to animal control; ever since then I've had the number in my address book (at the time I was able to sync my phone with my desktop). Yesterday as we were walking our dog, we see a dog wandering around on a street where we had just seen someone zooming by at easily 55 MPH (residential street with a speed limit of 35 MPH). The dog looked like it had a collar on, so I tried to approach it, but it growled at me, so I backed off.

I pulled out my phone, found the emergency number for animal control (outside of business hours) and reported it. Unfortunately animal control never made it (I got a call later). I hope that the dog made it home safely. Loose dogs always scare me as the chances of them being hit by a car are quite high.

WirelessModem up for sale

After a lot of thought, I've decided to put my WirelessModem program up for sale. I've neglected the software for too long due to my own lack of interest (I haven't used the software since I got rid of my Treo 300 a few years back). If anyone is interested in purchasing the source code to both the Macintosh side and the Palm OS side, please contact me. Serious offers only.

USB to PCMCIA Adapter - hope for EVDO cards

I stumbled across a USB device that accepts a PCMCIA high speed data card (EVDO). This looks like an excellent solution for switching to a MacBook Pro and still being able to use my EVDO card. The problems are: 1) it isn't shipping, yet, 2) they have no Mac drivers, and 3) it doesn't list my card, the Sierra Wireless AirCard 580 as compatible. I've sent them email to see if they'd be interested in having me write a Mac driver. I'll cross my fingers, but won't count my chickens before they hatch.

Laughable Sprint response

I sent email to Sprint asking when the next firmware update would be available for my Samsung A900 to address the Bluetooth issues I've been having, and part of the response I got back was

We at Sprint perform stringent tests and trials before launching any product, therefore there is no fixed time period for the software launch.

Really? Then how did the phone get out the door with one of the touted features, ability to use a Bluetooth headset, not working?

The more I deal with this phone, the more I want to switch to Cingular/AT&T so that I have a choice of decent phones with decent ability to use a Bluetooth headset.