Today is the first day of the 19 day Fast in the Baha’i calendar. Baha’is abstain from food and drink when the sun is up so it is important that I wake up earlier than usual to have a good meal. Waking up is rarely easy since I’m such a happy sleeper so I need all of the help I can get. Enter: a free web based telephone calling service called Wakerupper to help me stop slumbering.
Wired magazine wrote about Wakerupper back in November and I immediately tried it but it was not fully available then except for beta testers. Without an account all you can do is schedule a single call. My single reminder calls worked well but the real beauty of a service to call a phone number is to schedule multiple calls on a schedule.
Wakerupper is basically a service that calls a telephone exactly when you want with the message of your choosing. According to the company:
“Wakerupper is an experimental service that aims to make telephone alerting as easy and inexpensive as possible. In one easy step, on one simple web page, Wakerupper enables users in the United States and Canada to schedule telephone reminder calls.”
Today I got an email inviting me to be a beta tester for the servce (yay, right on time!) and it is working great. Details on how it works are below. Continue reading →
With jet fuel prices as high as they are, shopping for airplane tickets to visit the Melancon family this winter has been frustrating. Since we started looking in October the prices have been out of reach and I was wondering if I could ever afford the trip. Finally, this weekend the prices dropped and we made a purchase today. I was tracking prices with Farecast and as you can see from the fare history chart, now is a perfect time to buy!