So that’s me finally connected. It’s been a bit of pain, mentally. There’s been a lot of ‘f*ck it’ phrases flying around the new SMS Text News office in Soho — all from me.
I use Windows you see, for blog publishing. I particularly like SnagIT from Techsmith for screenshotting which is Windows only. Unfortunately, my Windows machine has had a few problems.
The machine I was using in America (a brilliant HP) didn’t take too kindly to me trying to run it on a UK 240 volt power connection. I forgot. I forgot to flick the switch from the American 115v connection on the power supply. Ergo the HP was rendered Class-F. Smart man.
I requisitioned my younger brother’s Dell XPS –a huge mother with oodles of CPUs. For most of yesterday and most of today it wouldn’t go online on any wireless network, save from BT Openzone from the phonebox outside. (Useful if i *needed* connection to the internet, but what I really needed was internal printer and network connections from the WiFi in the office).
Meanwhile everyone else in the office is surfing away on the 24mb connection.
Eventually I gave up and shared the wireless from my Apple MacBook Pro. Say what you want about Apple, the stuff just works. Or it doesn’t (sometimes, nothing’s perfect). But at least it’s binary, one or a zero. It works or it doesn’t. This Windows nonsense is, as my colleague Dan pointed out this afternoon, ‘Analogue’ — that is, it half works. The WiFi half connected, but wouldn’t fully connect, etc., etc.
So now I’m live.
And the first order of business, apart from blogging and responding to bucketloads of email, I plugged in my Nokia E90 to see if there was an upgrade available. Remember I wanted to get a proper 3.5 icon — and with it, uber fast mobile data?
Well it looks like I can get an upgrade.
First, though, because Nokia *still* haven’t sorted this rubbish process out, I need to get everything off my device, back it up and hope for the best, as the upgrade wipes everything. Inconveniently.
I’ll see you after the flash…