California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has promoted a new law banning talking on a cell phone while driving as an important safety measure, so it was obviously something of an embarrassment when his wife was spotted driving and chatting into a handset -- but not perhaps for the reasons you might think.
It's good thing that nobody actually gives bizarre ultimata like "You have to give up either your cell phone or sex for a year," because thirty percent of Boston-area respondents would choose the phone.
Jim Chouinard lives in Oklahoma, and his wife lives in the Philippines; like many long-distance couples, they fight crime via webcam. (Ok, so it was just the one crime, but still...)
Guy Laliberte started his career as a clown street performer in Quebec, then went on to found the Cirque du Soleil, which made him a billionaire. Now he's used his fortune to buy a seat on a Russian mission to the International Space Station.
Having your cell phone ring at an inappropriate time is always embarrassing -- but what if in the process you angered mutant superhero Wolverine, and he had James Bond backing him up?
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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