Almost Anywhere

My brother asked me a very good question today. It all started with an ad I saw on TV. Something about digging a hole and getting an internet connection anywhere. This is AT&T's new card for laptops, which gives you an internet connection anywhere you get a phone signal. It's a nice thing, really.

The price for it was $49.99. I think that's just for the card. I'm currently an AT&T customer, so I'm sure it wouldn't be much to just switch to an unlimited data plan. But then I remembered that I don't pay the bill for my phone. My parents do. Still, I said that it would be too sweet if I had one of those cards and a great data plan.

My brother countered with, "Well, would you give up your phone for it?"

Without the slightest bit of hesitation, I said, "Yes."

At one point this year, I had over 10,000 rollover minutes. Every month, about 1,800 expire, but 1,900 are added. My average phone call lasts around 3 minutes. Only once a week does a phone call exceed 20 minutes. I am wasting my phone.

So, yea, if I could have an internet connection anywhere, I'd trade my phone in right away. Sure, I'd be glued to my laptop, and it would be unhealthy. But I'm much better at communicating this way. I always feel like I need a script when I call someone.

I've been studying and polishing my CSS skills. I hope to have a real nice layout for this blog by next month. Once that project is finished, I'm going to brush up on Javascript. That will a couple of more things to add to my resume. Once I feel comfortable with CSS and JS, I'm going to start developing applications for Adobe AIR. I've been playing around with the Aptana IDE, and the AIR plug-in.

Even with those, I'll still need to mess around with SQL. Every job I've seen requires knowledge of SQL and database theory. I don't know a thing about either.

Still, just sending out my resume to various places and waiting for a phone call or email. At this point, I'm limiting myself to Austin. I'm going to expand that area very soon.