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October 2008: New Phones, Relaxing Days, Mice and 4th Generation Laptops Streaming Song Of The Day: All For Love by Bryan Adams (and a couple of other nobodies) So, yesterday my new Skype Phone from Three came. It rocks, although there are problems. First of all Skype takes forever to sign in and sign out. Secondly, it's not the phone I wanted. The problem is I clicked on the wrong link, and Three sent me the Skype Phone s1 twin pack rather than the Skype Phone s2 single phone. This said, I am still using the Skype Phone s1, and will continue to until my newly ordered Skype Phone s2 arrives. The thing is, the s2 is far better because it comes with Last.fm which I use a LOT on the laptop, and it also can be used as a mobile broadband device when it's connected to a laptop. That is going to rock. Now, here is the thing, Three mobile broadband costs a minimum of £10 a month. 3G internet on the phone costs £5 uncapped. Now, being a hacker (of the code kind) I think I can see something interesting here. If I can persuade the laptop to use the 3G connection rather than the mobile broadband connection, I can get low end broadband speeds for £5 a month. Bargain. Three have no idea how much I use Last.fm. It's going to become my new MP3 player methinks. And I had a lovely relaxing day. I made a lot of Skype calls to my beautiful girlfriend, and managed to get her invite for Spotify to work. And for those a touch confused, it shouldn't have worked, namely because she isn't in an area that qualifies. But I am, and I am pretty good at getting around geographic restrictions. Prime example is that I watch LOST and Heroes online on the US websites. Anyway, so, now we can compare musical tastes by sending each other links which Spotify can use. A great example is that I sent Alecita Slow Chemical by Finger Eleven and she sent me Angels by Robbie Williams. Neither of which are our particular tastes in music, but we can compare and contrast as they say in exam papers. Then after spending three hours on Skpe to my lovely missus in bed, I went to sleep and woke up to find a mouse outside my back door. Just sitting there. Poor thing looked absolutely bedraggled, and between myself and my mum, we decided to put it out of it's misery. Unfortunately, we discovered that it was actually the Wolverine of mice. I put my steel toe cap boots on and gave it a hefty downwards blow to the head, and it flipped itself over, then righted itself. So I got a shovel and smashed it over the head. And it began walking to the flower bed. So I got it airbourne and as it got to it's feet, I gave it another couple of good whacks across the head until it stopped moving. Four strong hits to the head to kill a small mouse. What the hell has that thing been eating? Adamantium pellets? Lastly, when I was at college we learnt about the various types of computers. The one which interested me was 4th generation computers. These are computers which can talk AND listen. So this evening I busily installed KDE on top of Xubuntu, then I set up voice recognition, and then installed voice packs into the system sounds. It now rocks. I get a warning, it says warning. I get an error, it gives me a verbal indication of how severe the error is. Which for me, I think it's pretty cool. Of course, the next step would be to install that system onto a eee PC, and then install that eee PC into a car complete with Google Maps for Satnav. That would rock. This said, apparently I can get Google Maps for the s2, which will be awesome for when I want to go to places like Hants LUG in Basingstoke and it's a nice day and would prefer to walk than get a taxi. Permalink | |
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