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Sep 11, 2005

Leave A Message After the Tone

Posted by Kim |

*beep*

"Kim? This is your Mom calling. No special reason and you don't need to call me back."

Dammit Mom, you know that I'm on a frickin' dial-up connection here and whenever you call and leave me one of these asinine messages it knocks my computer offline without me knowing it. I had written a most eloquent essay for my blog that was going to win me the praise and admiration of the entire blogosphere and when I pushed Publish, I got the dreaded Page Not Found error message.

*beep*

Oh, bloody hell! I forgot to wait for the beep and this message too is somewhere floating out in space somewhere....

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Most telephone companies use the *70 code to disable call-waiting. Dial *70, and you get a second dial tone, then call the number. You can generally build it into the dialing sequence of your modem or software--where it says phone number, put *70,XXX-XXXX

The comma puts a little pause in there for the second dial tone to come on before it continues. Good luck!

Roy

9/12/2005 12:51 PM  
Kim said...

Thanks for the helpful hint, Roy. Now my mother can leave all the inane messages she wants without me cursing her! :-)

9/13/2005 12:54 PM  
Anonymous said...

Kim, I love your site. It is beautiful! Congratulations.

9/14/2005 8:56 PM  
Kaye said...

I thought mom only called ME to talk when I was at the good part in my favorite t.v. show. I'm glad she cares enough to share.

1/19/2007 3:33 PM  

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