27th May 2013

Despite the steep learning curve

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Finally getting the hang of this whole cellphone thing. It’s simple. Remember to charge it, every day. Plugging in one end of the USB cable will not be sufficient. When the phone goes DONG DONG DONG at 0630, it’s not the kind of alarm one would think, and you will be carrying dead weight until you find a charger. Trying to ration the data plan for the first twenty-nine/thirty days of a billing period assures that you will only use 40% of the quota you have paid for. All lingering minutes are lost. Get over it. The constant switching between LTE and wifi means that FB will be available on demand, sort of. As in, if you dig deep enough in the menu system, you can demand to get around the firewall at work. Just a question of practice. If the phone company wants to know when you are going to pay them, it means that you already have. Right hand and left hand, etc.

But the rest of you know these things. I’m the new kid on the block. Please, try to accept that the learning curve is steep (and expensive). We live in Canada, eh.

A troubling afternoon with the VC codec. In front of a packed house, of course. Trying to project a document to the assembled, both local and virtual; roughly every 45 seconds, the screen snapped back to “room with a view”, and I hit an imaginary reset button. By the time I retired from the service, I believe that the high score on the insane video game belonged to me. All challengers are welcome!

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