It is 12:30am. I have just spent several hours trying to get e-mail to work as I want it to on my phone. Sure the customer care people from both Sony Ericsson and Vodafone find it easy to say just go on the net and use your hotmail account. Well, yes, up to a point, I can easily send text, but attaching images is proving far more difficult. I bought this phone because they assured me it is easy to blog images. Yet I am discovering that they don't use their phones for much more than hello to mates, otherwise they would know what it is like to be pulling my hair out right now and feeling like screaming.
It would all be much easier if Vodafone had sold me a phone as it had been manufactured. But unfortunately greed means that they disabled a function that means I cannot install ShoZu. It is all because they don't want me to buy anything that is not from Vodafone, especially games, so they removed the trusted certificate from Verisign for Java downloads. It means my phone does not do what they allowed me to believe it can. So this diary starts with technology frustrations. And frustrations with corporate stupidity.
Yet on the other hand technology opens a new world. My new phone is quite incredible. It is a Sony Ericsson K800i. It has a brilliant camera and was made with the ability to easily upload photos directly to a blog. It certainly can take beautiful photographs, the software works wonderfully. I can watch TV on it, search Wikipedia, make video phone calls, listen to music. It is a digital marvel that I find impossible not to love. Pity I have to virtually hack my own phone in order to get it to do something it is designed for.
So this then is the new world: part technological wonders, and part frustrations, and I as an artist somehow have to survive in the midst of all this. And somehow be creative. This is my diary.
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