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Archive for March 25th, 2003

We found out over the weekend that apparently the Russians had sold the Iraqis some GPS jamming devices to try to screw with our weapons. At a press briefing today, the General giving the updates said that not only had 6 of these devices been destroyed, but one of them was taken out with a GPS guided weapon! Now that’s pretty funny. I guess those Russian-made jammers weren’t so great after all, eh?

I just got off the phone with tech support at Verizon Wireless and I have to say it was one of the most pleasant tech support experiences I’ve ever had. I have a Kyocera 2235 tri-mode mobile phone. I bought Verizon’s MobileWeb, but in the year that I’ve had it, I’ve hardly used it because it’s just so cumbersome to type URLs on a phone keyboard. Well, with the acquisition of my Dell Axim PocketPC, that’s just changed. I got a cable to connect the Axim to the Phone and use it’s Internet connection. But I couldn’t figure out the settings to make it work. I called Verizon tech support and got a human within 60 seconds. He was extremely friendly, but not the right person to answer the question. He asked me to wait a little longer and assured me it would be no more than one minute before the right person would be on the line. He was right. I got another extremely friendly person who walked me through the settings on my Axim and stayed with me until I actually got connected. Total time on the call: 5 minutes. This was excellent service and I’m very happy.

This story tells how some Marines in Iraq are seething over the apparent executions of their comrades who fell into enemy hands. There is a definite bloodlust going on there now. I had a feeling that the showing on TV of the bodies of dead soldiers would backfire on the Iraqi’s as would the surrenders-turned-ambushes. There are going to be a lot more dead Iraqi soldiers because of both of these incidents.