No Signal
One of the many things I had wiped out of my mind about living at my parents is the almost total lack of mobile signal here. It doesn’t help, I suppose, having the “worst mobile on the planet” but at the moment every call sounds like ‘the last time she called while crossing the Antartic.’ And I’ve always hated the colour. Always.
Logic tells me to take my brother’s offer of his old phone which is on a network who cares about it’s signal strength but it feels… wrong… You see it’s on O2, the network that has the iPhone. Now, there is NO WAY I am going to get sucked into a jealousy spiral of the 100,000 lucky bastards who got one over the weekend… There is NO WAY I am going to drift into Preston and press my nose up against the glass of the O2 Store… But if I hear ONE MORE chav/towny/child tell their friend/gang member/posse that they are getting one I may have to go on that long awaited killing spree.
On Friday there was a particularly evil moment when a teenager with far too much gel in his hair was telling his mate (who’s earrings were just a little too Beckham) that his Dad was getting him one but that he didn’t really want it. Didn’t see the point! It took all the strength in me not to leap over the seat and throttle the ungrateful little… See, totally sucked in.
No, I shall be saving my hard earned pennies (you know when I get a job) and spending them by buying Leopard… and iLife 08…. oh and iWork 08… and then finding a house to use them in. I have a plan, see? Cool software and then place to live. It’s all working out!
Thanks to the gremlins cause by an unruly plugin there is a slight issue with my RSS feed. It will be fixed shortly… Of course, by the time it is fixed you will either not care because you will have read this on your feedreader (meaning it is fixed) or will have come to the site… Me? Make sense? As if!
Update: Is now working… only took 2 hours to figure out it was the MyBlogLog plugin… Grrrr…
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Don’t consider an iPhone.
You know me as a big Apple fan. But the pricing is horrific. And the gizmo itself doesn’t look THAT awesome.
Forget how good OSX is, and judge the iPhone and iPods in their own right.
You can also add the MyBlogLog widget to your sidebar without using a plug-in. That’s what I did. It doesn’t bother my Feedburner at all.
Luke - You’re right. I know you’re right but it’s so obscenely pretty and I wants it. I wants it bad.
SJ - And that was the fix. Great minds and all that!
Love the tree!
My cell phone is on its very last leg so I’m wondering about an iphone too. I think I’m too cheap though…we’ll see.
Ey up! Re: Leopard - Does look cool although I think I’ll be hacking it to get rid of that godawful shiny dock that obviously got put in after Steve ate some dubious mushrooms on the way to work.
As for the iPhone, I think I’ll go for the iPod touch and sellotape my mobile to it - tada! Say hello to myPhone!
This is your station under no control!
Kimberley - Yeah, the cost is the main reason I don’t have one at the moment… and probably won’t for a while… But as soon as I find someone to buy that annoing kidney it’s shiny new technology all the way!
Marc - Scary moment - ol’ school friend on the blog! The shiny glowiness does seem to be one of the main things people dn’t like but I know I’ve seen a how to get rid somewhere on the interweb. I like the iPod touch too but love th idea of an all in one - means I could wear coats with smaller pockets instead of having chipmunk pockets like I do most of the time!
Hilly - Get up, get up, get up, get up, get up, enjoy the show!
I’m not really all that tempted by leopard, or an iPhone if i’m honest. the itouch however I’m extremely tempted by indeed. I had a play with one at the apple store in Manchester. 16gb of goodness.
Dan - I’m not allowed in the Apple Store… Apparently that level of drooling in a public place just isn’t good form.