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I downgraded my iPhone data-plan this morning. Like most iPhone owners, I was on the unlimited $30/month unlimited plan. After looking at my data usage over the past few months (which AT&T conveniently charts for you - see below), I realized I haven't even crossed 200MB once. It made no sense to continue to be on the unlimited plan.

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The final step of the downgrade process requires you to agree to the standard legalese of terms and conditions. I usually skip over these things, but this snippet caught my attention:

DataPlus 200MB for iPhone may only be used for the following purposes: (i) internet browsing, (ii) personal email, and (iii) consumer applications. Using iPhone to access corporate email, company intranet sites, and/or other business solutions/applications is prohibited.

That's an interesting bit right there. I may be reading it too literally, but as written, anyone reading their work email on their iPhone would be violating these terms. I'd say that's the vast majority of iPhone users.

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(Warning: the following may only be interesting to those of you obsessed with cars, as I am.)

I was in British Columbia a few weeks ago on vacation, and I happened to see this outside the hotel:

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An Acura CSX.

If it looks familiar to some of you, it should: it's just a Honda Civic. I was amazed that Honda is able to pull off this bait-and-switch. Honda basically slaps on a couple Acura badges on it's ever-popular Civic, adds a dash of brown plastic wood, changes the tail lights, and voilà: a second-rate luxury car is born.

And best of all, Honda probably charges much, much more for the glorified Civic CSX. Interestingly enough, the CSX is only available in Canada.

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via Jalopnik.com

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Miles Davis in what appears to be a Ferrari 275 GTB.

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via Jalopnik: The Art Of Car Logos

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"Maybe the hardest part of leadership—be it leading a company, a family, a relationship or simply your own life—is that often times you don’t know and you have to still have to act. Leadership in some ways is built on learning to be comfortable with not knowing, with imperfect knowledge, with the inherent uncertainty of it all."

-Pema Chodron in Comfortable with Uncertainty

From metamorphblog.com, themonsterinyourhead.com

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CMU Campus from the 9th floor of the new Gates Canter.

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From autoblog.com

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"Galileo wasn’t the first to turn his telescope to the sky, nor was he the first to record what he saw. But he was the one who made everyone see what he did, and for that, all these years later, he is owed a debt of gratitude."

From discovermagazine.com. Image found at hubblesite.org.

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Blue In Green by Miles Davis Listen on Posterous

“Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

-Miles Davis

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This is a pretty awesome picture of the Top Gear set. From Top Gear's twitter account.

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The Master does nothing,

yet he leaves nothing undone.

The ordinary man is always doing things,

yet many more are left to be done.

-Tao Te Ching

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Taken over the summer.

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