John Mort's Weblog

So now that I have youmail working with Adblock Plus, I have been wanting to address a pet peeve of mine. I really hate cellphones. Mostly.

I enjoy having the security of being able to call for help if my car breaks down (a frequent occurrence when I was driving cars that were > 15 years old), I also enjoy trian being able to contact me when she needs to. I just hate the random interruptions, infrequent they may be. It's not that I don't want people to be able to contact me on my cell phone, it's just that most of the time a message will do.

I think I've figured out a solution though. Something tells me that I read about this somewhere, but I can't remember where so I'll tentatively take credit. Tomorrow I'm going to make a silent ringtone, make that my general ringtone, then assign audible ringtones to people on my contact list. I already have a certain ringtone for family members, one for friends, etc. But this time I'll set one for everyone I want to talk to, so that unimportant calls will only vibrate my phone which will make them less obtrusive and can be passed to voicemail with none of that latent psychic stress that occurs when you know you have a message waiting but haven't checked it yet.