Last night I went to have dinner with a coworker, he left the office before I did, and wrote down his phone number for me to call when I was heading over. I was running late as always so I tried to call, but the number was busy. I called again, busy. I was getting really frustrated because I'd said that I'd try to head over around 8pm but it was already past that.
I'm borrowing Hendric's old phone and I've only had it for about a week. I'm not used to it yet, in fact I really don't know how to do much on it. Well, after attempting to call someone else after 5 "busy" attempts, I realized it was probably the phone and not the number.
There are apparently 2 lines on the phone, even though there aren't really. I had had it set to line 2, who knows why, and so couldn't make outgoing calls. I discovered all this standing outside of Daniel's apartment building, where things were only more complicated by the fact that his name was not on the buzzer.
Thankfully, the mystery was solved, and so I didn't need to take the subway all the way back home.
Fun phone frustrations...
P.S. It's the Sony P1i if you're curious:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/p1i
Though I couldn’t attend OMMA Social San Francisco (I’m so far away, and my travel budget is currently non-existent), I did enjoy this article from MediaPost summarizing five key takeaways from the social media conference. The article’s author, Catherine P. Taylor, makes a number of good points, but what interests me most is the impression she got that social media, while still white hot with professionals working in the space, has yet to catch fire with clients.
