I have a new mobile number… May 3, 2008
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Q) When you’ve had the same phone number forever, and then you change it, how should you best go about the process of informing everyone who needs to know?
A) I don’t have the slightest inkling of an idea. We’re sort of past the age of sending out mass e-mails, aren’t we? After all, I don’t even know the majority of the people in my e-mail address books.
Anyway, the point is, I finally decided to get a new mobile number. I thought it might be nice to have one with an area code that accurately reflected where I currently live. If you’d like the number, kindly send a request via e-mail, or simply call me on my old number, which will be active for another two weeks or so.
laborparty
My wife and I got into a mini-spat about what number to choose for our new Skype-In number. I was aiming for a number that would mean something in Chinese, like 2882-5252, which, if said in a certain way kind of sounds like “hungry daddy hungry, I’m hungry I’m Hungry” - which also happens to be the number of Taipei Pizza Hut. Even though I could chose any area code I wanted (almost), I couldn’t quite make it work. In the end, my wife decided that we should chose the exact area code for the place we actually lived in, so I kind of gave up on having something meaningful and went with the easiest to remember digit sequence.
I know this wasn’t the advice you were looking for. But now you can order a pizza in Taiwan; that’s worth something, isn’t it?