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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Bookkeeping

OK, the stats from April came in a while ago, and we somehow transferred 90.7 gigabytes of information last month, just slightly exceeding our allotment of 10 GB.  But here’s the really cool part.  pMachine was going to charge us $3 per excess gigabyte, and they did, but first, they automatically upgraded our plan to allow 80 GB per month, and then they charged us for the upgrade and the excess 10.7 gigs.  This basically cut our overage bill in half, and then some.

So what I want to know is, how cool is that? And what other corporate entity can you imagine behaving in this way?  Can you see Verizon or T-Mobile getting in touch with you and saying, “hey, you were $300 over your plan last month, so we just went ahead and modified the plan for you to accommodate your higher level of usage”?  Can you imagine your gas or electric company saying, “look, last month was a little weird, weather-wise, so we trimmed our rates to make sure you wouldn’t get hit with a monster bill out of nowhere”?

Thanks, pMachine people.  And thanks to all the readers who wrote in with bandwidth-saving suggestions back when this bandwidth-devouring blog was reduced to citing other bloggers’ nasty remarks about us in order to try to drive readers away.

In other news, Jamie and I are off this afternoon to Waterloo, Ontario for the 2005 conference of the Canadian Down Syndrome Society.  No, we’re not thinking of emigrating just yet—I’m serving as tomorrow morning’s keynote speaker, and Jamie is joining the 13-17-year-old group for fun and games.  He is so excited about that.  He also likes the fact that the Waterloo Inn has a pool.  I’ll post tomorrow’s Arbitrary but Fun Value Judgment whenever I get a chance.

Posted by Michael on 05/12 at 11:24 AM
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