hello world (warning: boring)

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Date: 14 February 2010 05:53:26

My internet (and phone) has been broken for the last week. This has been somewhat trying although not really a disaster. About three weeks ago you might recall I posted the equation for calculating my new phone number. The new phone number was attached to a BlackBerry Pearl. Which I mainly bought because I wanted a phone with wifi that didn't cost $1000 so I was using it with my old sim card and not doing any BlackBerry stuff. Anyway, then there was the disaster with the closing phone company so I just switched to the new sim card and that came with a year of unlimited internet and email. So I haven't been cut off from the world but I couldn't be bothered to do many things...

My typing speed on the new toy is going very well - it's a weird keyboard to get used to: QWERTY layout over 14 buttons. The predictive text is excellent and deals with unknown words far better than my Nokia did. After the first few days I was fine with it - speed and accuracy are definitely better than with the old phone. And when I use it for MSN messenger, suddenly it looks like I use capital letters and my words look lovely and polished!

Anyway, the phone company guy arrived today (a Sunday afternoon...) and did some tinkering around up the phone pole and at the thing up the street that does... stuff.... and fixed the phone. This got the internet back to how it was functioning before the phone died - ie. cutting out after a couple of minutes. So I fiddled around with cables and made the phone cable bypass the surge protector. This seems to have fixed the problem. Slightly concerning that it probably caused the problem in the first place however.