Why Didn’t Someone Do This Before?
The reaction from people on hearing that there is a system now available that works very much like a telephone directory in reverse is "why didn't someone do this before?". And it is a very good question. The fact that it is here now is pretty cool, of course, but if we could have had it a few years back that would have been even better. Most of us can surely think of at least one occasion on which we ...
The Reverse Directory That Turns The Tables On Stalkers
Some people say that you're nobody until you have had a stalker. Strangely, it turns out that most people who have been stalked tend not to enjoy it that much, and would give up their stalker in return for total anonymity if they could. Alternatively, there are anti-stalker measures that you can take to push the people who are bothering you into the background. One of these is the Reverse Phone Lookup system. That number that keeps showing up on ...
Nuisance Phone Calls
Although we can be grateful to Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the telephone and making it possible for us to speak to people who are far away, the truth is that many of us, in this day and age, find as much to complain about as we do to celebrate with our phones. For many of us, barely a day goes by when we are not contacted on the phone by someone to whom we have no desire to speak. ...