Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog by Dan Hon

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    7 July 2007 @ 2pm

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    My life in bullet points

    Bullet points, because it’s easier than writing prose. Best leave that to the experts, hell, this could just be a blank entry with a bunch of tags associated to it.

    • Spending an inordinate amount of time playing Burnout Dominator, getting those tricky last few gold medals
    • Not sleeping until 5am, and not getting up until middayish - I fear that I’m about to join the Eastern Standard Tribe again
    • Trying to switch from NetNewsWire to Google Reader (with Gears for offline, natch) because, well, Newsgator’s online interface sucks
    • Being even more frustrated about my Nokia E61. Listen: going from displaying a 3/4 full battery to a 1/8 full battery in the space of thirty seconds is not big, funny, clever, or conduct becoming of a supposedly business-grade mobile phone. Oh, and taking over 3 seconds to open up a contact in my address book? NOT FUNNY. I’m that angry with you, Nokia, that I’m going to call the E61 a mobile phone, and not a mobile computing device or whatever it is you call them nowadays. It’s a shit phone, that’s what it is.
    • Slogging my way (enjoyably) through Black Swans, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, Spook Country and this month’s Edge and Wired.
    • Watching the tennis. I mean, the weather reports. I mean, the repeats.
    • Drinking far too much coffee (this may have something to do with point two above)
    • Being amazed by pens which go slosh
    • Reading far too much about the iPhone and hoping that T-Mobile get it so I don’t have to break my contract when it comes out in the UK. I’m such an Apple whore.

    3 Comments

    Posted by
    Bullet Point
    7 July 2007 @ 4pm

    A colleague’s E61 recently decided to declare it was being charged. Every 30 seconds. Without a cable anywhere near it.


    Posted by
    Adam
    8 July 2007 @ 7pm

    ROFL at the E61 pains. I feel for you, with my awe-inspiringly frustrating MDA2 and the infamous “dial a number with your ear whilst on the phone to someone” keypad. I was actually considering switching to the E61, before I throw this one at a wall, but it sounds like that won’t help much :(.


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