Comments on: I’m Not a Mac #1–The Great Migration

By: Jailbreak on the Journey from Apple: My Continuing Migration from Mac

Jailbreak on the Journey from Apple: My Continuing Migration from Mac — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:11:50 +0000

[...] to Google’s Android mobile phone platform. I maintain only a single phone number (it’s easier that way), so I knew a bridge number would make it easier to shift from carrier to carrier. Skype would have [...]

By: I Am a Future PC: Why I’m Dumping Apple after 15 Years

I Am a Future PC: Why I’m Dumping Apple after 15 Years — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:31:50 +0000

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By: All Hooked Up for No Place to Go

All Hooked Up for No Place to Go — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:18:18 +0000

[...] officially say: I’m prepared. Three months almost to the day since the first wave of my techonological migration, I’m proud to complete my transition to the modern age. Give or take [...]

By: Bart Crouch

Bart Crouch — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:25:58 +0000

Don’t forget the new 872 area code that is starting to overlay 312/773!

By: Randy Simes

Randy Simes — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:53:15 +0000

Google runs my life, and I like it.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:02:59 +0000

Even though I’ve lived in OP for 4 years now, I’ve still got my Boston phone number, and I probably always will.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:28:33 +0000

“…though my mobile number retains its erroneously outer-neighborhood area code 773″

You know, I don’t think this is as much a Chicago thing as it is a New York thing. If you live in the city, there are only two possible area codes you could have – 312 or 773 (unless you bought your phone in one of the burbs and their myriad of area codes). It’s my understanding there are at least 2-3 area codes per burrough in NYC, and which one you have shows whether you’re a ‘true’ New Yorker.

At some point an area code is just an area code.

(DISCLAIMER: My cell phone is a 773, and I have a Google-Voice-formerly-Grand-Central 312 number for a business number that just forwards to my cell – or wherever else I tell it to forward. Total hypocrisy on my part!)