While holding down the left and right soft keys, insert the stylus into the hole for the reset button located next to the USB port. You will be prompted to confirm you really want to restore factory settings.
December, 2008
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Dec 08
Water Damage to ATT 8925
I was just asked how you can tell if one of the AT&T smartphones/PDAs has experienced water damage. I’m not sure about what it looks like on the 8925, but there is a sticker on the 8525 that looks like the one in the above photo. It’s the small white sticker next to the camera flash “bulb.” It says VOID in red letters through the middle. This simply indicates that the manufacturer’s warranty will be void if the sticker is removed. If the phone has been submerged in water this sticker will change color from white to red.
From what I can tell on the 8925 it looks as if the sticker is rectangular and located by the sticker with the serial number and the IMEI.
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Dec 08
Mac Desktop in 3D
Apple has just filed a patent claim on a 3D version of their Aqua GUI. It looks really cool. It’s basically the existing appearance, but with depth.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/11/3d_gui/
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Dec 08
Netting = Doomsday Machine
I just heard that through the use of something called “close-out netting” our finance gurus basically turned our economy into a doomsday machine that could do nothing but self-destruct.
Wonderful.
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Dec 08
Southeast Corner of Santa Monica and Bundy
I’ve been trying to figure this one out for years.
There is a small gated park at the southeast corner of the intersection of South Bundy Drive and Santa Monica Boulevard in neighborhood of West Los Angeles. I’ve walked its perimeter, which is fenced, but the gate is locked, prohibiting entry.
My limited knowledge of the history of the area doesn’t offer much. Nearby University High School sits atop a natural spring (“Lágrimas de Santa Monica,” or “Tears of Saint Monica”) that was the namesake of the city of Santa Monica. The area may have originally been incorporated in the city of Sawtelle. I’m not sure if Sawtelle’s border extended that far west. According to Wikipedia, the city of Sawtelle extended west to the Santa Monica city limit, which is at Centinela Avenue.
LALife.com lists this parcel as # 4263-036-900 and categorizes it as “Government Owned Property.”
AH HA! Found it!!!
Well, sort of…
It’s not the authoritative history, but at least it is a story about “Bundy Greens.”
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Dec 08
Starved of Class Consciousness
I guess I’m just now in my early thirties beginning to realize how I, as an American who grew up at the end of the Cold War, was raised in world that was completely depleted of any and all real economic class consciousness. Viewed through the structural-functional paradigm, US society would have perceived any real study of communism as a contagious disease. From McCarthyism, blacklisting, and ultimately the threat of world domination and ComIntern subjegation, American citizens came to view disparate and wide ranging ideas like Marxism, Communism, Socialism (Fabianism) as one. Ironically, the collectivisation of these ideals in a figurative sense resembles the amalgamation of resources from which communism originally derived its name.
When I first attended a public high school I was told that, as a prerequisite for their employment, all of our teachers were required to sign a document stating that they would not teach their students anything about communism. This small but pertinent concept seems emblematic of the greater idea that Americans seem to have willfully and, over time, increasingly denied themselves any kind of real economic class consciousness – almost as if they were doing so for the sake of their survival.
More to come.
Kyle Hayes