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Techno tantrums

I sometimes think I’m not cut out for this whole technology lark, and today my faith in that belief has swung wildly from one extreme to the other.

It started well enough. After copious downloads I got the new Windows machine sorted out. It’s still not as easy as the Linux install was, but it does look nicer. In installed the Windows version of iTunes, too, and think I’ve perhaps found the best piece of Windows software I own. It’s so smooth - very Apple - and it’s a doddle to stream the track library across my network.

Other things, though, didn’t go so well. I can’t get the iPod to talk to Windows - perhaps because it’s so chummy with my iBook - and I got myself horribly confused trying to buy a new mobile phone.

Somehow - somewhere - I lost mine on Thursday night. I think. I don’t know where, or quite when, but it was probably either in Mildreds or in the taxi home. It was switched off, of course, as it always is, but in spite of that I’ve been ringing it two or three times every day since to see if I can hear it ringing - or if someone else has picked it up and got past the keycode.

Anyhow, I finally admitted defeat this afternoon and sat down with the websites to dig out a new one. But things have moved on a long way since I got my last one. I don’t want picture messaging. I don’t want a camera. I don’t want a colour screen. I don’t want polyphonic ring tones. Tri-band would be good, but I don’t need GPRS, and with no other Bluetooth devices there’s hardly any point having that, either.

But they all have them - or at least a selection of them. All I want is my old, battered phone, four years old if it’s a day, and unable to do anything more than talk and text. It felt clumsy and brick-like before I lost it, but now it just feels missed.

Perhaps the answer is to buy one on eBay. If I can find one among the tat…

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2 Responses to “Techno tantrums”

  1. Krist Says:
    October 25th, 2003 at 10:07 pm

    I think I’ve got one of those old brick-like phones…not that it’s any help to you 3000 miles or so away…

    It’s the first sign that you’ve turned thirty, mate :?

  2. Thom Says:
    October 27th, 2003 at 8:45 am

    I had a similar problem getting iTunes to talk to my iPod on windows. It kept dropping the disk.

    The solution I found was to rename the iPod back to “iPod”. Then iTunes would work fine and let me rename it back.

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