Wow, I can never remember how to dial from China to the US (001) is the answer, but “howtocallabroad.com”:http://howtocallabroad.com has the general list.
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Excel 2008 bugs make it useless for loans and private equity
Wow, I can’t believe Microsoft would ship a product like this. Beware, Excel 2008 won’t recalc XIRR correctly and in fact any sheet that has an intentional reference where loan amounts have fees that are dependent. This has worked in versions of Excel for the last 20 years. So sad, it means that Excel 2008 […]
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1M iPhones and 10M app downloads
Wow, at this rate of 10 apps per new iphone, this is going to be an amazing platform. The lower price I’m sure really helped. Hope I get mine soon. (Despite the short battery life and I’m going to love the white color!) Mac Rumors: Apple Mac Rumors and News You Care About Despite long […]
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Cathy Pacific Business Class
Wow, fully flat seats in business class on Cathay. Sign me up! And a flast screen TV too. That is great for the Vancouver to Hong Kong leg that I take sometimes.
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Phone Rates to China
It is amazing how rates have really fallen. Now with AT&T, calling a mobile number in China is $0.16 a minute. With “GlobalPhone”:https://www.gphone.com/myaccount/multirates.asp?glo=globalphone&aid2=GH15 as a low cost check, it is 7.6 cents per minute. That is 1 cent a minute to call a local access number (7038522111) and then 6.6 cents to call China. Wow, […]
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iPhone cannot restore error 6 , -50, etc.
Wow, my iPhone got wedged with the Apple logo coming up and then the spinning wheel going on forever. This is apparently fairly common and there are not “many”:http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1343270&tstart=45 good resolutions for “error (6)”:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307120 or “unknown error (-50)”:http://forums.ilounge.com/archive/index.php/t-159056.html All the resolutions come down it seems to a single thing: # Get the iPhone into what […]
