JDPFu.com 2025

Some ideas for things to do after my contract ends at at&t:

[ ] Travel a little
[ ] Mooch off family when the money runs out!
[ ] Scrub the house clean
[ ] Clear the "back 40" of stumps
[ ] Practice PS2 and PS3 Gaming
[ ] Learn new job-related skills
[ ] Take some fun college classes
[ ] Learn Spanish
[ ] Learn Japanese
[ ] Redecorate the house
[ ] Become Entrepreneur
[ ] Create "secret project A"
[ ] Create "secret project B"
[ ] Create "secret project C"
[ ] Create "secret project D"
[ ] Market A, B, C, D and make $$$$
[ ] Catch up on Reading for fun
[ ] Catch up on reading for investments
[ ] Become a better stock investor
[ ] File for unemployment
[ ] Update Resume
[ ] Update living will, estate plan, power of attorney
[ ] Fix my WindowsXP PC that's been broken since 2006
[ ] and finally - look for a new job in 4-12 months, if needed

[x] Sleep
[x] Rest, Relax, Recoup
[x] Get healthier

My last day at at&t is/was 11/15. Sometimes you have to take big steps to move forward in life. I’ve decided to take this opportunity to do just that.

I won’t be able to say goodbye to most of the folks I’ve enjoyed working with these last 8+ years – first at BAPCO, BTSI, BTG and finally at&t. We’ve had some opportunities to excel and some fairly easy projects over that time.

As most of you know, I always worked to make it better or fix the process and finally, to endure it.

There are simply too many people to thank in AT&T and the telecom industry as a whole who helped me learn enterprise architecture, Telcordia systems and together we were successful in designing and deploying projects. Special ‘’SHOUT-OUT’’ to RonB, HarryMc, KeithF, almost all the cB Segment teams and a number of folks who have left already. Also I can’t forget the IDS, GPS and TechNet teams – thanks Ward, SteveMc and MarkS! Lunch guys, I’ll miss you too!

Please, throw me an email or connect with me via LinkedIn. It will be appreciated.

Should that email address stop working (spam is really bad), try guessing addresses using my name and/or initials and/or common UNIX accounts. You’ll probably find an aliases that will work.

Again, thanks to you all and feel free to look me up!

My plans for after AT&T Todos]].

AT&T New Terms of Service

5.1 Suspension/Termination. Your Service may be suspended or terminated if your payment is past due and such condition continues un-remedied for thirty (30) days. In addition, AT&T may immediately terminate or suspend all or a portion of your Service, any Member ID, electronic mail address, IP address, Universal Resource Locator or domain name used by you, without notice, for conduct that AT&T believes (a) violates the Acceptable Use Policy; (b) constitutes a violation of any law, regulation or tariff (including, without limitation, copyright and intellectual property laws) or a violation of these TOS, or any applicable policies or guidelines, or © tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries. Termination or suspension by AT&T of Service also constitutes termination or suspension (as applicable) of your license to use any Software. AT&T may also terminate or suspend your Service if you provide false or inaccurate information that is required for the provision of Service or is necessary to allow AT&T to bill you for Service.

Nice, very nice. Wonder how much longer I’ll have phone service from AT&T just by posting this? Clearly, do no evil is a foreign term to THE NEW AT&T.
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Ok, today AT&T claimed they never intended for censorship to be ‘cause’ for the terms of use. Here’s a new article.
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Ok, today, 10/11/2007,AT&T apologized.

Stolen from a /. link
The real link.
"He scanned more than 6 million computers just between June and October of 2005, running 6 million scans on AT&T’s network alone. ‘You would not believe the number of routers that had "admin" or "Cisco0" as passwords on them,’ Moore said. ’We could get full access to a Cisco box with enabled access so you can do whatever you want to the box."