Hay isn't though!
I haven't bought stuff over the internet since last year when someone got a
hold of my credit card number and charged themselves a nice trip across the
atlantic to England. Fortunately the credit card company contacted me so the
people got bounced out of a vacation.
Anyway, when I was at my Cincinnati residence, I didn't have my network
hooked up because the IBM had committed suicide and was at IBM's testing
facility in North Carolina so I sat out on the bench in the front yard of my
building and used starbucks' network to go have a look on qvc and download a
local restaurant's menu and look at a couple of things from Independent
Living Aids.
All with the PK.
Anyway someone was walking down the street and asked me what I was doing and
I showed them the pk and they exclaimed "You're doing all that with just
that little thing?"
Then I went over to the restaurant whose menu I had downloaded and promptly
ordered one of the new things and they asked how I had known that they had
the item, so I showed them the pk.
They said it was sure smaller than the original Braille Note.
Anyway totally cool that's all there is to it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Cranston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 6:26 PM
Subject: re: [Braillenote] Made my first purchase with the MPower
Hi Pam,
Very cool, indeed! I can utterly relate. For the last several months I
have paid my rent using my mPower--or pre-mPower-BN--and it works
excellently. I have done everything from recharging my online calling
card pin, to buying flash cards, to supporting my coffee addictrion with a
five-pound bag of coffee beans, all with the mPower. It handles websites
so well now, it's amazing! I still haven't gotten over it.
And since I'm here writing this message, I have to brag just a little,
even though I could have done this under KS6.11. I had to leave work late
because of an extremely late driver, so, since it's Friday night, I
thought I'd celebrate getting off work with a little visit to a nice
little bar downtown. After I got seated and served, I thought I'd scan
for wireless networks, just out of curiosity. Much to my surprise, I not
only found a wireless network, but found that it was fully available, with
no security. I proceded to check my Email, download a book from
Bookshare, and answer some mail, one of which is this very message. And
all of it went so smoothly!
I know, none of this is earth-shaking news, but it's so, so cool! I'm
sure this is someone's home network, and that they have no idea that there
is some weird blind person sitting somewhere in a bar taking advantage of
their service, but how cool is it? Very, in my not-so-humble opinion.
Happy Friday, and have a fine and dandy weekend,
Sarah
----- Original Message -----
From: Pam Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bn List <[email protected]
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:29:44 -0600
Subject: [Braillenote] Made my first purchase with the MPower
Very cool. Just made my first online purchase using the MPower. I used
it to order Flint River Ranch Dog Food from feedmypet dot com. (I forgot
how to write it so that it would translate correctly again). Anyway that
site was obviously quite accessable using the MPower, and Josef will be
getting his dog food to prove it.
Pam
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