In response to my co-worker Brandon’s recent post about his computer upgrades… and possibly a little follow-up to my previous post about the MacBook Air…

Apple just released their super slim MacBook Air. I got to thinking, this is perfect, it’s super portable, you can carry it around easily and keep in touch wirelessly from your couch, coffee shop, et c. It doesn’t have the real power of a full-blown computer, so you probably would be able to do all your work on it. Instead, it is perfect to read email, browse the web, look at pictures, maybe some other stuff.

With the profusion of the wonderfully unstable technology of cell phones, it is all too frequent to have the other party in a phone conversation disappear. This event is promptly followed by a series of reconnect attempts by both parties that continue to both get busy signals, until one gets lucky, or the other gives up. I hereby propose that the standard protocol for this event is for the party who originated the initial call is the one to redial, and the other party should just wait for several minutes before attempting to call so that the line is left open.