Uncle Biek

Better not get too close to me because I think I’m attracting trouble somehow. While I was pretty happy with my new phone and installing all sorts of tools and other software to be better able to manage it and play with it, the old data had to be transferred from my previous phone; the Nokia 6230.

Since Nokia and Sony aren’t exactly all that compatible in phones and used software I had to get my old stuff, mainly text messages and phonebook, across some other, alternative way. The easiest way, I thought, would be to use Bluetooth since that’s pretty universal and both parties their software would support it.

The USB Bluetooth dongle dad gave to me for the time being had software coming with it for XP, but I first tried getting it to work on Vista and the server. Both worked but not all that great so I fired up my gaming rig which still runs XP to try it on there.

Unfortunately as soon as I placed the USB stick in the machine it froze and that was the last thing it did. Its graphics card seems completely dead and without it there’s no telling what else might have been affected or even destroyed.

I must have done something very bad in a (or more) previous live(s) to deserve some bad luck in this one (fair enough I guess) but this is simply ridiculous. The amount of trouble my PC has faced over the past few months is just unbelievable. I guess all the software troubles were just some form of getting a message across and when I didn’t listen they tried something a bit more drastic …

I just don’t have the energy or the motivation to find out what’s wrong right now but I’ll dive into it tomorrow. It’s … oh, never mind …

Good morning people!

Well I’ve finally been able to pick up my new phone from the post office (or at least what they call a post office these days) but it’s been well worth the wait.

And what a wait it was! As you know, the postal service first brought the package by last Tuesday but, since I obviously was at work, no one was home to accept it. So they left a note saying they would be back the day after and try again.

And what a surprise, when they returned on Wednesday I was … again at work. They left me another note and this time it said I could pick up the package after one o clock the next businessday. Ok, so Thursday it is then.

Or not, as it turned out, since I was all of a sudden having a very important meeting scheduled in that Thursday evening so … Friday would be the day I could get my hands on my new phone.

And that promise to myself held up all the way until I went to bed at ten o clock. Unfortunately it shattered to pieces about ten minutes later when a colleague called and asked me if I could replace him at his late shift on Friday. Helping out is more important than a gadget most of the time so I agreed and that moved the whole project one more day forward.

But this morning nothing got in my way to collect it. I’ve been playing with it a few hours now and it’s quite a lot nicer than I expected it to be, does all I hoped it would and lots, lots more.

I love this thing!