Not much to report today. Spent a little time upgrading my PGP tie-ins to pine, so that it actually does things correctly (been meaning to do this for quite a while, actually). It will decrypt multi-part messages, messages that are signed, or messages that have additional content besides just encryption. Happiness.
Did some more organizing of my finances and finally got my credit card statement to balance with what is on my bank's web page. Woo hoo!
Signed up for a better AT&T plan today. The service is exactly the same, it's just an arbitrarily complicated pricing scheme to make plans seem different. It's amusing, though, 4 of AT&T's big plans (and don't consider these descriptions legally binding -- go to AT&T's web site for full descriptions) are:
- $0.10/minute, any time of day. This is apparently what plan we were on.
- $0.05/minute from 7pm-7am, $0.09/minute from 7am-7pm ($5/month minimum).
- $0.05/minute, any time of day, with a $7.95/month additional charge.
- $0.07/minute, any time of day, with a $4.95/month additional charge.
The interesting thing is that AT&T marketing makes it sound like they have actually calculated the mathematical derivative for each plan. For example, and says, "You should use this plan if you are spending over $x.xx a month, or if you are spending over
$y.yy, you should use this plan..."
But here's the kicker (as I'm sure all good, thinking people out there noticed): spending $x.xx on which plan?!? I hate marketing dweebs. Do people actually fall for this stuff?
Anyway, we did the math (i.e., compared the plans over our last 3 phone bills), and signed up for the $0.05/minute any time plan. Indeed, 2 months ago, this would have saved close to $40 on our bill. Yikes! (Granted, there were some pretty long wedding planning phone calls, but still...)