Voicemail
I promise that I’m going to listen to that message that you left me. Soon.
Well, soonish.
(That’s 2 missed calls, 1 New Message, and 61 unplayed voicemails)
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50 pence (iN Da Pod)
I started my blog as a continuation of the daily write-up that I did when I got 500 people to give me 50p so that I could buy an iPod.
World Record Holders
There's a lot of tube related stuff on this site due to me being a former World Record Holder for travelling around the entire network (275 stations) in the fastest time possible back in May 2004.
Living in the USA
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the BBC News website I moved to Charleston, South Carolina in the USA in May 2006 for three and a half years before moving back to England and back to work for the BBC in November 2009.
Underground : USA
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London Tube Map.
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The human league (of friends)Because everything counts
It's only a TV programme
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Chicago, Improvised
Superstar Power
Minding the Gap
Lift is a mystery
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Emails.. send & read those all the time. Texts? Fastest fingers in the west… well, west Charleston anyway. But voicemails? I have a strange aversion to playing them back, and I have no idea why.
Oh, Geoff I can hardly believe you wrote that above. I feel exactly the same, embarassed at missing that vital call from someone who cares, and those painful moments whilst listening to someone gabbling and stammering for 30 seconds and making no sense. I have to delete the messages immediately, phone back and apologise. I shall never be able leave you a message again.
Me too! I have a free solution for you thoough. I use youmail.com. There is a beta program that automatically transcribes voicemails to texts. They’re not perfect, but you can usually get the idea. In addition, you can personalize greetings for different people, and listen to and delete voicemails online.
What if Keane left you a voicemail? Bet you’d listen to that. Of course then you’ve have to download it at 256kbwhatever, decide if it was as good as their last email, and notate how many times you listened to it in your car.
can’t you just turn the voicemail off? I did that cos I kept just missing calls, and then having to pay for the privilege of listening to someone saying they’d called, when I could already tell that from the missed calls list. And if it was important enough, they’d call again or find some other way to get hold of me. Not that I’m in heavy demand, though. Would have taken me a couple of years to get 61 voicemail messages…
hmmm, on my phone, I have ZERO unheard messages. And actually ZERO messages period. Especially from one party who never calls me..one Mr. G. Marshall.
Maybe use Spinvox or one of those providers that turns voice into text?
G’Mum.. you have the same dry sense of humor I remember when meeting you!
Ckd. LOL! Too true!
When I said “I’m going to call you”, you seemed to think that that meant ‘immediataly’ – or, within the next few days. No! I meant “At some point, in the future, in the next few months .. I’m going to call you!”.