is so happy Dom just fell for the programming mistake he has ridiculed me for…
is in a pub and stroking wills beard…
was awake before 9! and is now assisting in the house tidy up
OK, so I have now got myself a new phone. It is the T-Mobile MDA Vario 3 (or as others would call it, the HTC TyTN 2 ).
I had the version before this and it was a very cool phone, but given what this offered and for how little they were offering this as an upgrade i just had to do it. Basically, its the same form factor, so chunky phone, slide out keyboard and more connectivity than many third world countries. The highlights of the new model for me are probably the tilting screen to make it easier to see the screen when you type, the new version of Windows mobile (so 6) and a built in GPS.
I have spent the last couple of days playing with it on and off as well as moving over all my settings, text messages, calendar and all the other stuff I love these phones for.
I think it would be safe to say I like my technology quite a bit and as such my main source of interest is the GPS. OK, so I know this technology is old hat, I know that, I’ve been using it for long enough. But that still doesn’t get me passed how cool it is to walk down the road with Google maps open, and active internet connection and the location dot in Google maps actually moving as I walk along. I mean, I notices I cross the road… how cool is that!
So just for a bit of fun, I have a screen-shot of my phone while running in my room. The blue dot is drawn by Google maps and is to show where I am. I have add the red dot to show where actually was. I would say its correct to about a meter and a half.
Yey technology, just yey!
has a new phone to play with :D
is at brighton station with lots of police waiting for his train to leave
is still not in a pub, but now has a working bookmark manager! wooooo! (ok, so its sad..)
As I dawdled back from the station seeing my girlfriend off I started to think where I see my life going. Of course I have always had dreams, ambitions and just plain ordinary things I want to achieve. For example, get a job I’m happy with that makes ends meet in the life I have become accustomed to, have enough spare time to take up some of the hobbies I want to, not to mention the money for half of them, settle down and have a family. Now I know that last one sounds like a slightly strange thing for 21 year old male to say, but it’s pretty high on my list all the same and is probably the most important to me by a long way. Now although I have always had this little list, some of the things on it seemed a bit further in the distance than others. I think I’ve finally got to the point where I can see how to do all this. I’m not even close to actually doing it, but at least I can see how I can which is very comforting. The less comforting side effect is that I can also see how little of what I need to do am I actually doing. This is made all the more complicated by missing someone very much.
One thing I do invite everyone to watch at some point is this video. I know it is long, in fact it’s very long (hence the stupid time I’m writing this) but it is very much worth it. It is basically a university lecturer in the US giving his final lecture knowing he is going to die. It is all about his reflections on life and the good and bad things from his life. It was made famous on the web a little while ago but I have only just found the time (*tries not to laugh*) to watch it. All I can say is it is very very worth the comparatively little time it needs.
Running time: 1hour 44mins
is not in a pub
is in a pub
…
is up and maybe even awake!
It would be safe to say I have a lot on my mind at the moment. For starters, I have recently noticed I’m going into the IT industry… This means I can do pretty much any job that requires a computer. Thanks to my year in industry working for a big American bank I just assumed I would slot back into one of those, after all, hours are good, company is big and job security is high not to mention pay is very good. However, I could also go work for a charity and end up running their IT systems, or could go into the education industry, either lecturing or running their systems, after all I have enough experience at the latter. In fact, I’m slightly scared and at the same time very comforted by this thought, especially given I’m not exactly putting my all into my course at the moment. In fact I may be pushed into some interesting decisions soon, some that I never expected… then again, a lot has happened this year I didn’t expect and its far from all bad.
As for some of the things on my mind. Well here things really do get complicated. Basically Demelza’s laptop failed on Monday night. I arranged for a Jonner’s to go round and attack it with Linux live CD and see what he could do. The answer wasn’t much. I went up Tuesday night and had a look at it. It didn’t look good. I stayed the night and left her with my laptop to keep her working. So Wednesday night I had a bit more of look with the very proactive assistance from Will and Nick. Now we come to Thursday. I planned to get up early but clearly this conspired against me as I was woken by Will at 10:30. We made our way into Sussex campus to collect an adapter to plug the drive into. This idea also failed. Then it so happened that Fouad at the labs had an almost identical disk. So after a bit of analysis we thought swapping the controller boards over may help. However this required a screwdriver bit no-one had. So, as it was lunch time, road trip home with Fouad, Dan, Myself and Will. After a spot of lunch in he rain back on campus we made the swap. Still no luck. From here myself and Will left for town with a big list of places to ask who may do data recovery. Although many of them did this issue is fairly well beyond most of them. So with a couple of other items from the list like mother day gifts complete we made our way home where this evening we have been very lazy as both of us are pretty dead from the day (along with the rest of the house).
Tomorrow should be interesting (well, Today now). Fouad is driving home tomorrow morning where home happens to be north London and home to the top entry on a Google search for data recovery. So I phoned them this evening and I’m going to drop the drive off with them so they can tell me just how bad it really is (I have a pretty good idea and there is a slim chance they can get the data back, but I’m not getting my hopes up in case). From there I will be going to Roehampton to find Demelza and then will be going back to Horsham for the weekend so she can finally meet my family. Her stress levels must be through the roof. As it is mine are and it’s not even my data and I know my family pretty well at this point.
A lot of my stress level is can be attributed to the fact that as a fairly OK person in the realm of fixing computers, I’m not used to not being able to fix it, especially when it’s this important (the data is what I would call mission critical).
So all in all, not great at all.
Sleep time me thinks, I have to be out at 9 when my lift arrives.
is a laptop transportation device…
is far too sleepy to be awake…