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Lindsay Beaton
Lindsay Beaton

Writer. Student. Knitter. Technophile.

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That sinking feeling...

The sinking feeling when you realise you've just clicked "OK" and you *really* should have picked "Cancel"... On Tuesday I was (as usual) doing half-a-dozen things at once, when I was prompted to update something. Now, with the apple, I pretty much always update everything immediately - it's easy, and keeps the machine running nicely. So, without really reading the dialogue box properly I clicked "yeah go ahead" and carried on with what I was doing... About 30 minutes later a new dialogue popped up saying "restarting your iPhone - do not disconnect" That's when I got that sinking feeling. In fact I got the feeling that can best be summed up by bomberman "MISTAKE!!!" But, by then, it was too late, my iPhone had been upgraded to a non-jailbroken version of the 2.1 firmware - which meant I was locked out, and no longer had a functioning phone. <sigh> that will teach me to *read* the fricking dialogues before I make a choice. All was not lost however, thanks to the fantastic work of the iPhone Dev Team I was able to get the phone unlocked and activated again. It only took me 2 hours - mostly because I had a bitch of a time getting the phone to go into DFU mode.  And I'm never making a choice without carefully reading the options again.
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Decisions, decisions

One of the nice things about Fuzzy working for a US based company is that he travels there a lot. This means I have access to cool consumer electronics I can't get here. His next trip is in January - co-incidentally just before my birthday - which means I can ask for a toy.... But I don't know which I want the iPhone (which is a seriously cool piece of kit) or the Sony Reader Digital Book See - Although the iPhone has serious cool on its side, the fact of the matter is - I spend *way* more time reading ebooks on the train than I do listening to music - and given most of my journey doesn't get phone reception I'm not going to be doing a lot of web surfing either. And my Blackberry 8800 actually does all the things an iPhone does - just not in such an ubercool way... But it's an *iPhone* - if I had an iPhone people will look at me with envy. I could use it to pick up girls, everyone will want to know how I got it. No-one has ever thought you were cool because you were reading on the train - even if you have disguised what book it is. So I don't think I'd get that kind of street cred with an e-book reader... in fact I can imagine to conversation now... "What's that?" "It's an e-book reader. It let's me read electronic books." "Oh, so it's interactive right - you can like play games." "Umm no - just read regular books - like now I'm reading Bleak House by Charles Dickens." "OK - why don't you just carry a regular book?" "Ahh but this lets me carry lots of books in a lighter package. Right now I have 160 books loaded on it." "Wow! How many are you reading?" "well - just the one..." "...." "But when I finish it - I'll immediately have another book available" "So - you spent a lot of money to avoid the risk that you might have to go more than 10 minutes without something to read." "yes" <<thinks>> what a nerd <</thinks>> "oh" See - just doesn't have the street cred. But the thing is... I would spend a lot of money to avoid the risk I might have to go more than 10 minutes without something to read... So what do I do? Go for the apotheosis of cool? Or embrace my inner nerd?

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