So, I tallied up our technology-related expenses, and even though there’s less of them, they still suck.  Currently, we have no desktop computer as we’re getting by with our old laptop and my work laptop.  The wife has the first gen iPhone, while I have a piece of shit Nokia off Craigslist.  We subscribe to basic cable, Internet, and VoIP phone with TimeWarner.  I pay for access to Newsgroups and maintain my web server.

Both phones: $150/mo
Cable/Internet/Phone: $130/mo
Newsgroups: $30/mo
Server: $25/mo

Total:  $335

I won’t go into “pinching pennies on tech” tirades, you have this site to provide some reading material about the subject.  Still, could we go without the two cell phones?  Probably, but then we’d end up with uncoordinated schedules, and would constantly miss each other trying to carpool, and in general, piss each other off.  The Newsgroups account could go, but then we’d end up going out to the movies more, as well as rent/buy movies/music a lot more often.  The server I straight up need because this site is still making money, believe it or not.

So no, I am not cutting out the $335 off my budget.

And by the way, what’s with the whole iPhone hysteria?  It’s a piece of electronic equipment, people, not a techno-messiah.  Sure, it’s sleek and … what’s the other metrosexual word they use for that … oh yeah, “svelte“.  Sure, you can now put apps and games on it.  It has a nice voicemail feature.  It has a full-blown GPS against Google maps, and a sweet app called Shazam that can identify songs after you put the phone against a speaker … wait …

I want one now.  The GPS thing sold me.