A true horror story, Bob.
For several years I lived in the US working with a computer software
company. We did communications software for HP 3000s. E-mail, fax, all
sorts of internal and external communications. You may recall that in the
final years of the mini-computer boom, the late 90s saw a total collapse of
the mini market. So, one day we had a potential purchaser for mega$$, the
next week (or so it seemed) we were down $400k and dropping like a stone.
A conversion to Unix was possible but financially impossible.
During those years I got to travel from coast to coast visiting our
clients, always wit a techie. Start the week in Boston, end it in LA. We
had clients like Spaulding Sports, Knight Ritter news, Warner Bros in L A,
and John Huntsman’s company in Salt Lake. John was US ambassador to
aRussia for a time. My contact there was a chap named Romney. That
Utah/Mexican family was enormous having lingered with polygamy beyond its
time. Fun times until it wasn’t.
During the First Gulf War, the military airbase north of Salt
Lake was a great place to watch B-52s and other military aircraft take of.
A B52 is huge, especially when it passes over only a couple of hundred feet
above!
I save the take of being followed around SLC by the FBI for another time.
It was protective, not criminal. I had ended up as a witness in the
AirIndia trials and
CISUS wanted me safe.
Willow
P.S. My dear Sonia, having been a psych nurse at Riverview initially
though my story was ... perhaps a bit fishy, until the RCMP dropped by one
evening...
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:56 PM Willow Arune <walittleboots9@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Yes, Google for me as well. Years with very few problems...
Willow
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 2:29 PM Wynn Payne <wynn.payne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I got caught in a supplier switch many years ago and put all emails onto
google. Accessible anywhere any time.
Wynn
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 8:26 AM Robert Ramsay <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Willow,
Be cautious about using Telus for email. It works fine for phone/cell,
but Telus has migrated all its email customers to Gmail. This has caused
numerous issues: If you use Microsoft Outlook for your mail, it requires a
super-guru to set it up properly when you have multiple accounts; Telus no
longer supports Outlook. My sailing club, company and personal accounts
are all jumbled together into one big mess. I have a MS Surface, a desktop
using Win 10, and an iPhone; each one is different. Diane also has an
iPhone, iPad and desktop, and has her account and our company account on
them. When I got my surface working, all her systems quit. I now have the
Surface working, and she has her iPad, but nothing else works properly.
The same setup I used for my Surface does not work for my desktop, even
though both are using Win 10. Also, we cannot send any messages from our
working systems with Outlook to anybody who is on the Shaw network (Rogers
and others seem to work fine). Our messages to a Shaw customer go to their
Junk folder, or we get an “undeliverable” message, or simply nothing
happens. We only find out they did not get the message when the person
sends us a message that they have not heard from us for a long time. Telus
is aware of this issue but are totally unresponsive. Google says all their
systems are working properly and that the problem lies elsewhere. Shaw is
also aware but says all their systems are working properly. So, I cannot
use Outlook, and Gmail is a jumbled up mess. We are about do drop Telus
and use a different system. That means a change in our company address
that we have used since 1991. Of note: my personal email address is not
with Telus, so it will not change!
Bob Ramsay
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*Subject:* Public Mobile gone!
When I finally got a cell phone one of Sonia’s daughters suggested I
sign up with Public Mobile. Not a good choice...
Suffice to say, Public was damn awful. The problems were many capped
today by lack of service and a refusal to transfer my telephone number to
Telus. Reason unstated and no way to contact anything but a bot at
Public. I was so fed up that I made my first visit to Parkwood mall to
effect the change. When Public would not “port” my number, I decided to
start a new account with Telus even though it meant getting a new telephone
number.
My new telephone number is:
403-396-3609
For now, no home phone, just the Cell.
I have been exploring Red Deer and very much like what I see. Like
Calgary, it seems more Americanized than BC communities, but not in a
flagrant way. The city has hills and valleys but once you go beyond city
limits, you encounter the flat endless prairie for as far as your eyes can
see. The development my new home is in is very well maintained. For
unknown reasons, when signing up for new utilities you are expected to
listen as the agent reads out the entire contract over the phone.
Strange. And while Alberta likes to make a big deal out of choice of
utility companies does anyone really know the differences between them?
But in the short time I have been here, I really have a good feeling
about Red Deer. On my scooter, I am five minutes more or less from
Walmart, Canadian Tire, four large grocery stores, Staples, and a myriad
number of smaller businesses, fast food outlets, and restaurants. My new
doctor is also close by. In fact, I could easily survive without a car.
So, cross out the old number and write in the new...
Willow