Technokratosical Difficulties

I would just like to take a moment to post an administrative notice and update my personal situation.

It's been four days since I came back to England from France and I'm missing my girlfriend quite terribly. In fact, I miss France itself, it's officially my home. I was planning to write and publish more posts. But I've been experience several technical difficulties. Here's the full list in chronological order this time around:

1. My Sony Ericsson K800i loses two of its keys so I can't type a, b, c, d, e, f, 2 or 3. And guess what the number was for calling to top up my phone was? 2345... That means I had to use a card to put credit on my phone instead. Fail.
2. So I got a new phone which lets me call Joy's PC via Skype completely free of charge forever. It takes me an age to activate Twitter on there.
3. As soon as my new phone is all fixed up and ready to roll my laptop starts crashing and I have to take a giant quantum leap backwards from Windows 7 all the back to Windows XP. Here I am using Windows XP but I had a whole load of problems during the installation...
4. First of all I couldn't actually start the installation.
5. After several tries I managed to get into the installation process but that came to a standstill when it asked for a license key that I didn't have.
6. A friend managed to fix me up with a key and soon Windows XP was installed and I was putting all my backed-up files on there. But then I had to activate it by calling Microsoft and typing in a number, but the number contained a '3', so I couldn't type it.
   
7. Thus, I couldn't activate Windows XP until I put credit on my new phone which I totally couldn't afford at the time.
8. Nevertheless, the same friend helped me activate it without having to call anyone.
9. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck without sound and I'm still searching around for a driver to get my audio back up and running.

I'll be posting about France very shortly so bear with me. I've installed Microsoft Word so I can write the posts while I'm offline and then publish them another day. But I've got GCSE examinations coming up so I may be a bit pressed for time. I'll get them done sooner or later so don't fear.

Just don't expect anything remotely like Shakespeare.

Threedom at Last

I haven’t had a particularly fun life in the mobile phone department. I got my first one at the age of 13 and it was the oldest thing on the planet. Unfortunately dad was poor so we could hardly afford much more than that. It was a Sony Ericsson K310i with the following features:

RIP Chrome

A month ago I started using Chrome as my default browser after a friend from school recommended it to me. I love the browser itself but unfortunately I’ve had to switch back to Firefox.

CES: what do you want to see?

As I'm sure you know, CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is going to happen soon, and I am asking the open question of what you want to see in it. To kick things off, I'll give a few ideas of what I'd like or expect to see. First off in what I expect to see is Blu-Ray, but not players on their own, but in televisions. DVD players in televisions have been around for ages, but Blu-Ray players built into slim televisions is right what we need for this new decade. If many of the big companies had these out, that would be great.



Something else I expect to see is OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) televisions. These are super thin, size 0 televisions for the future. OLED has been around for a while now, but only in smaller screen devices such as MP3 players. Maybe then, the technological companies could mix together those first two ideas (Blu-Ray TVs and OLED TVs) and have an OLED-BluRay TV! That is definitely a hope for seeing, but who knows?


Many people hope to see an Apple Tablet (pictured above) but in an earlier post to this blog I questioned it. I think that if it does come it will be in WWDC in June, but even then I don't think it'll happen.

So, the question is asked, what do you think will feature in CES 2010? Comment below and we'll see if you're right.

iTunes 12 days of Christmas: Day 8

Instead of the normal lite version free, it's the full version for one day! Click on the pic to download and enjoy! Check back tomorrow for what's on then.