Rant: Nokia's New Charging Pin

Enough pondering, its time for a rant!

WTF is wrong with Nokia? Why would they change their tried and true charging pin for this rinky-dink shit hole of a charging pin?

You know how many charger extension dodads I've broken over the last year? 6!!!

You know how much my local phone shop charges for another one of those dodads? $10.00!!!

They bend, they break, you can't plug them in without looking, and well, they just suck.

On top of the annoyance these things cause me, they have also severely damaged my phone.

When I first got my phone, and proceeded to bend the shitty little pin within about a week, I kept using it, because, well, it still worked.

After about 3 months of using a bent charger, what do you know, it ripped the phone's internal pin out!

This little annoyance turned my "multimedia computer" into a $500.00 brick. I had no way to charge my phone once it broke internally

Further, because my phone (a Nokia N70) is a European model, and never sold in the USA, I did not have the manufacturers warranty to fall back on.

So, I had to take it to the corner phone dude, where he proceeded to charge me $80.00 to open the phone and solder on the part that had broke.

I said all that to say this... Why did you, Nokia, change the beautiful, fat, bulletproof charging pin you used to use?

Kindest Regards,
Mike

Old Lessons for a New Blogger

The first thing I've learned about blogging... Write, review, rewrite, and review again.

I'm an english major by day, superhero by night, and if I've learned anything in school, its review, review, review.

I just went through, after the euphoria wore off about posting via email, and read my previous posts. In all of them, I saw things that weren't said as I wanted them said. Punctuation that wasn't used when it should have been. Titles that were too long, or just plain stupid.

Anyways, here's to reviewing before posting and, hopefully, improvements in the future.
-Mike

The Failings of the Mobile Web

Mobile sites drive me nuts. Maybe I'm ill informed, but in the days of Operamini, where anyone with a java enabled phone can easily view any webpage, regardless of formatting, style or graphical content, I don't see the need for these sites to exist.

I want a single web for everything.

When I hop online using my phone - to read the morning blogs, check the daily news, or peruse my local sports page - the last thing I want to see is a white page with 10-20 boring blue links.

I want graphics. I want richness. Internet is like TV. It is engaging, moving, changing and above all else, graphical. But where it differs from TV, and where it becomes more interesting, is that it is a hot media, as opposed to a cold media.

When one watches TV, one becomes a vegetable... a potato, if you will. When one views the same content on the web, one becomes engrossed, both in the media and in the endless ways to interact with it.

Mobile sites kill this interaction, and more importantly, mobile sites kill the graphical interface.

Another shortcoming of mobile sites, is the need to "click through" to the story you are after.

When you go to x webpage, and get the mobile version instead, all you usually see is a link to the story(ies). This requires one more click to read that article. Further, if you are reading something like a blog, you click through to that article, reach the end, and then have to backup, find the next, and click yet again. The tedium just builds and builds.

Whereas, if you were to browse it as it was originally designed, you would see multiple articles, one following the other, with comments, trackbacks, etc. All of these things are what makes the web so interesting, and so all-freaking-consuming. And that is exactly what I want from it.

Mobile sites are like rss feeds, but without the nice interface. And I promise (whether you like it or not) to never, ever, redirect you to a mobile site.

-Mike

How I Finally Updated My Blog via Email

I have made it my goal to accomplish everything that one would usually do on their PC, on my "multimedia computer," the Nokia N70. This is the beginning of this endeavor, and thus far, it has been a real pain in the ass!

First, I had to find this sad old Blogger account, that hadn't been used, or updated, in about 6 months. That was a chore in and of itself. I couldn't remember my user name. I also couldn't remember my password. Finally, after many hours of banging my head against the proverbial wall, I realized that there was an option called "forgot your username too?" or something to that effect.

Voila! Username emailed to your email account.

Now, I can access my Blogger account and dashboard, but... How to post to this blog on the go? Turns out Blogger has this option built in, and all one has to do is email a post to the blog... You simply email, go@blogger.com, and it will send you back an email with a confirmation number of sorts, and you enter that into go.blogger.com.

So yeah, I go to do that. It says, "Hooray! We found your account, would you like to keep sending your new posts to hfgb999.blogspot.com [or some such shit] or would you like to send them to an existing account?"

Well, I want to send them to phonophiliac.blogspot.com, so I choose this option, hit continue! Operamini, in its wiseness (no doubt helped by go.blogspot.com) decides to Reload Page! Yea! I hit continue again, Reload Page, again, Reload Page.

I then threw my phone on the ground, and broke my beautiful Thinkoutside Bluetooth Keyboard. Not really, but I was pissed.

As of writing this, in Mobisystems Office Suite, I still have not been able to update phonophiliac.blogspot.com. So, I am currently archiving to my phone for later upload.

I just cant understand how a service designed for mobile posting can be so difficult when using a MOBILE.

Rant over. Hopefully, because of the widespread viewing this blog receives, these issues will be rectified ASAP.

-Mike

Edit: I finally figured it out. Under the account settings of the blog you want to send to, you will find, egad!, "email." Just go in there, define the email address and you're ready to go. Very, very simple.

I feel like a total idiot... But, hell, that's nothing new to me.

Anyways, if anyone out there is struggling with this (probably not), then now you know...

My Second Post - On the Way to World WIde Fame

Well, here we go, my second post in... oh about 6 months (clapping)!

I am actually going to start posting here on a regular basis, and once that starts happening, I will start putting the word out there to visit my blog.

Anyways, just wanted to say hi to my faithful readers (me), and let them all know that the posts will start pouring forth like mana from heaven.

Regards,
Mike