Lightly Toasted

Back in the days when mobiles, or cellphone as they are known in America weighed like bricks and looked more like an upright shoe brush I had sunk my teeth in all that mobile gluttony just to see how good they really were. It was a Nokia, I don’t really recall the model number if there was one but it looked close enough to this. It had a rather nice digital screen for its time but did cost me lots of Indian rupees to receive incoming calls and even more to make outgoing ones! Aaah! Mobile technology was here to stay — people had figured out how to make money on the go. Even though it was somewhat awkward due to its size and weight they still were handy at best and mobiles seemed a great tool while commuting. It was a fashion statement for some and lots seem to take photos of them using a mobile even if it wasn’t their own — as if the handset were a new pet. Something to cherish for posterity! You guessed it, it was early to mid 90’s. people mostly kept their word of honour and sense of time. And those that had a mobile had the luxury to run late at the cost of a call. It was the start of a new disease! The running late disease which is so rampant today.

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As of this afternoon, after much deliberation I picked up a d2 ±RW LaCie with LightScribe for burning and labelling all my CD/DVDs and miles and miles of photos that I have collected over the years. My macbook’s internal CD/DVD RW drive broke down in December last year purely due to too much wear and tear and possibly way too much movement and dare I say I had dropped my macbook a good few times too. And considering it use it about 10-12 hours every weekday … its a surprise it still works… plus it has travelled ✈ to India, Singapore, UK, France, Barcelona, HK, and as far as Perth in Australia all in less than 2 years. So there, having broken my burner and not having taken Apple Care I thought an external drive was the best way to go. Thanks Harry for your help and suggestions too. He reckons I’m a bit biased towards LaCie products. I think they are good and we do like the French.

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I’m excited as a kid would be in a lolly shop… allow me to explain… yes I’m very excited that Paris Hilton is out of jail and Tony Blair is not the prime minister of UK anymore but unfortunately none of those really make me happy or excited as much as the fact that I am all set to get my first ever X-series enabled phone. If you’re wondering what X-Series means: its very best that a mobile and the internet has to offer packaged together. Read here for more information about what X-Series is. It would be good to have Skype on phone and the much needed Mobile Broadband. In a day from when this is posted iPhone would be hitting the US and there is much hype on it already…. but it possibly wouldn’t be before another three quarters of a year or so till they come down to Australia and are as easily available and usable with existing Phone carriers. In the meantime I might as well indulge in the all new Nokia N95. And with a 5 MegaPixel and Carl Zeiss lens you sure can leave your camera back home but my main reason for going forward with the N95 is speed, compatible with Three’s upgraded HSDPA network for ultra fast Mobile Broadband. Thanks for all your help Jez and Harry.

Here is to another vanity update. I once bragged about my Sony Ericsson. Sony Ericssons are so yesterday and fugly. I have got myself a nice flip phone… oh very sleek and with a gorgeous waistline. It black, it hot, its Motorola MotoRazr V3XX Talk to me!

…real bad Better still I could grab one when we’re in the US in a few months time but will it be compatible in Australia? Am guessing the short answer for now is NO. But it will be in the near future. The internets abuzz with iPhone. I’d rather not bore you with my analysis of it as a lot is being said about it even as I type this now…. almost half a day after the announcement was made by Steve Jobs. What a revolutionary idea. Wow another blow to a hundred odd Mobile handset makers out there! Well done Steve.

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Over the last few years… I have used my mac to the fullest… at least 15 hours a day most days, if not more… dragged it through the dry arid Death Valley in Nevada, to the chilling snows of Yosemite, a few road trips, outings, roughly 16 flights and about 5 of those where I couldn’t take it on board with me (American Eagle, and United flights)… everyday to work and back, on the train, the bus, the beach, the mountains… its gone with me almost everywhere. And now… after all these loving tender moments… the Toshiba HardDrive that Apple used for my PowerBook wouldn’t mount. It has what is technically called: a S.M.A.R.T. failure… after I ran my last program Onyx!
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Would this be an excellent gift for your black Macbook? what do you say?

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Am I spoilt or what? Eli, Neville and I went to Gilroys up the road from where we work and had a rather scrumptious lunch and of course if you go to Gilroys you have to have Kilkennys beer thats a given. On our way back the conversation drifted to wheather I was talking my iPod nano. Well I wasn’t going to but now I am. Trust me when I say I’m spoilt… Eli gave me his Sennheiser Headphones for my US trip. WOW. This is the PXC250 Sennheiser that has the amazing noise cancellation.

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Sennheiser Headphones Sennheiser headphones are available from iHeadphones, the largest headphones store in the UK, specialists in Sennheiser

Do you use them or have seen friends and enemies flashing ‘em around? Well I’m considering buying one… okie here’s the bit I am keen to hear about:

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