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My most excellent SFlickr peeps showed me how to do a few things with my new camera last Thursday. Now I am less afraid of using it, but more antsy to take Great Photos, which just isn’t happening yet and won’t for a while. Still, some have come out better than I expected, and I’m sticking those in my Flickr photostream.

London looms in less than a week, and I wonder if I’ll get lost, and exactly how poetic that will be. Not very, I imagine, since I’m there on business and not pleasure. Thanks for your recommendations, by the way. I expect to have exactly 37 non-working minutes to myself, but I’m determined to make it to the Tate Modern, the Globe, and the British Library. With the remaining 7 minutes, I will take a picture of a chip buddy and jog past Big Ben.

A few weeks ago, and just in time for this trip, my mobile started to misbehave. First it decided to purge some of its address book entries in no recognizable pattern, which wouldn’t be a big deal except that I don’t answer my phone unless I know who is calling. Syncing with my Mac helped not at all.

Then its battery stopped holding a charge, so that instead of plugging it in every four or five days, I had to do so every night, and even then it wouldn’t stay charged for more than a few hours. Luckily, my work-issued BlackBerry has phone service, which worked fine when I forwarded my calls to it, but I couldn’t figure out how to forward SMSes. (Am I missing something easy here? Obviously I can’t just switch SIM cards, because then I’d be stuck with all the data charges my BlackBerry incurs.)

Anyway, I finally ordered a replacement battery for my mobile, installed and charged it, and synced with my Mac. Everything is once again functional. No big deal: I got almost a year and a half out of the original battery. The Razr is, despite a crappy UI, a fine mobile … and once again I am trying not to mention or even think about the iPhone. pleasePleasePleasebrainjustshhhh!

You can die from drinking too much water. You can die from just about anything, though, so be careful out there.

About Halsted M. Bernard

Halsted, a/k/a cygnoir, does stuff with words. Her favourite things to do with words are keeping this diary, writing stories, and organising information. She lives in Edinburgh with her husband, two cats, a few gadgets, several fountain pens, and many books.

Posted on 15 Jan 2007 in Diary
  • David

    I’m already guessing that, when they actually do come out for purchase, you will be the first person I know to buy an iPhone.

    And the Razr is indeed a most excellent phone.

  • j david

    how can you not visit the Rosetta Stone?

  • http://www.cygnoir.net Halsted Mencotti Bernard

    I am paring down my list of things to see if I’ve already seen them, and I saw the Rosetta Stone on my last visit.

  • http://badgertastic.vox.com/ Brock

    Um. Is the blackberry charges not linked to the phone account? As your home/personal mobile doesn’t have blackberry service enabled, won’t it just not access those services while it is installed?

    That’s be my guess. But while I am fairly technical, I know less than bugger all about fruit…

  • http://www.cygnoir.net Halsted Mencotti Bernard

    So there are two mobile accounts, each with their own SIM: one for business (BlackBerry) and one for personal (Razr). The business account is paid for by my company, and has unlimited data access so that I can answer email when I’m not in the office. The personal account I pay for, and doesn’t have unlimited data access. So I could switch SIM cards, but then the BlackBerry wouldn’t be fulfilling its primary function. Make sense?