Sometimes technology is annoying

Okay, so technology much as I like it is actually frequently annoying. Such as when my cable modem stopped working earlier this week. When the tech came out to check on the line he plugged in a different modem and had no trouble connecting with it.

So today I got to spend money buying a new cable modem. Then discovered that the password I set on the wireless router was apparently written on the missing manual for the old cable modem. Five attempts to reset the router later I finally got it reset. Two attempts later it was talking to the new modem.

I've got the WPA encryption turned back on, some point later I will get around to doing the other security stuff (setting it to only talk to certain MAC IDs for the most part). The WPA is the biggest security feature. The others aren't really anything more than speedbumps to keep out the lazy.

Did I mention I had to spend money. I don't like spending money. It has a habit of producing bills later on. *mumblemumblemumble*

Which will make me oh so happy when I get a cell phone.

Getting a mobile for sure this time

Speaking of spending money...

I've debated getting a cell phone in the past, but I've had a few to many time recently where I wished I had one. So I'm in research mode again.

Sprint I can get a discount (15% I think) on via work. The phones they list look reasonable too. And Sprint is offering a plan where incoming calls are free (for a bit more money up front, probably not worth it for me). Verizon has had a few good comments from some people I know; disadvantage is I'd have to take the time to reverse their bluetooth crippling on whatever phone I picked (turning off everything but the headset profile should require a warning label to be placed on all ads, "Because we are insatiably greedy, we will turn off half the nifty features the manufacturer built into the phone we are selling you.").

Anybody pleased enough by their provider to try and pitch them to me?