Dropped calls and AT&T

It's getting to the point where within the first two minutes of every call I make 3-4 miles from where I live is dropped. It's official now that AT&T 3G infrastructure can not handle the load put out by the data usage of the iPhone. At the same time, we are still being charged for a broken service.

Since all of this is official now, and AT&T already publicized it's problem with it's network on YouTube, why are we still charged 100% for the the broken service. At least AT&T should not charge for any dropped call.

My Live account was hijacked !

It is very scary what just happened to my Microsoft Live account, but some how my contact list was hijacked and an email message was sent to my entire contact list. This is very scary! The email message was sent in my name, however, it did not include my signature.

The only way this could have happened, is through me using public wifi's at Starbucks. This is only my speculation. Right now, I have set my password to automatically expire every 72 hours until I figure out what's the story

Any other recommendations?

My first Mac

Finally, I broke down and purchased a white MacBook. I made this purchase mainly to do software development on it, and also to use it as a light weight laptop alternative. I have been using a heavy 15.4 inch Dell, which I have been happy with, except for it's size.

My MacBook came with a 2 GB of RAM, 160 GB HD, with a disappointing Intel Graphics Card (Intel GMA X3100). I did not want to get the MBP yet, as this is my first Mac System, so I wanted to ween my self slowly into the world of Apple.

Also, I have installed Vista Ultimate on it using Bootcamp 1.2 and to my surprise, I could not believe how easy the whole process. I am impressed with the performance of Vista running on the MacBook. Right now I am still learning my way around the Mac OS X.

The first applications I have installed so far:
- Office 2008 for Mac
- iPhone SDK
- Firefox
- Live Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger

...and I am still looking to what other applications to install.

Dubai skyline

Forwarded from a friend:
========================================================

An amazing view on one of Dubai 's city skylines.

This picture was not taken from an airplane, but from the world's tallest building:

Burj Dubai @ 2,620 ft / 801m!!!

===================================================================

I drove by Dubai Tower last week at night and definitely it can not be missed from a far distant. Driving through Dubai after four years of leaving was a shocking experience. Starting from the under development Dubai Metro system , The Emirates Mall with the in-door ski, to the massive development along Sheikh Zayed Road.