Unlocking
October 21st 2008 07:42
One of the odd things about the Vodafone mobile connect I leased in England while we were over there was that we had to unlock it to get onto certain sites, including the one I play Scrabble on. You'd hardly have thought the Scrabble site was a menace to anyone, unless it's Hambro themselves, but seemingly the mobile connect thought it was. It classed it as being a site akin to something children shouldn't go to, or that might contain something of a sexual and therefore disturbing nature.
Having been married for 34 years, I don't find sex particularly disturbing. Interesting, exciting at times, but only disturbing if my wife decides she isn't interested or excited about it...!
Unlocked cell phones were another quirk in the UK, and in Europe. It seemed odd to find whole market stalls given over to the unlocking of cell phones. Must be a way they set them up over there. In which case New Zealand is definitely better off. If you buy a cellphone here, you have it unlocked in the first place, or at the very least unlocked on buying it.
Being a basic at all times cellphone user, the whole thing doesn't really bother me. It's only since I've come to work in my current job that I've ever used a cellphone regularly. Having one while overseas was handy, especially if my wife and I got separated in some foreign city, but in general I hadn't ever used one to any extent.
When I see people using cellphones that are so extraordinarily complex that they can barely figure out how to get them started let alone use all the innumerable functions, I wonder why people bother. Tapping out messages at a speed closer to the speed of darkness than the speed of light seems a mighty waste of time to me.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Brandt, flickr.com
Having been married for 34 years, I don't find sex particularly disturbing. Interesting, exciting at times, but only disturbing if my wife decides she isn't interested or excited about it...!
Unlocked cell phones were another quirk in the UK, and in Europe. It seemed odd to find whole market stalls given over to the unlocking of cell phones. Must be a way they set them up over there. In which case New Zealand is definitely better off. If you buy a cellphone here, you have it unlocked in the first place, or at the very least unlocked on buying it.
Being a basic at all times cellphone user, the whole thing doesn't really bother me. It's only since I've come to work in my current job that I've ever used a cellphone regularly. Having one while overseas was handy, especially if my wife and I got separated in some foreign city, but in general I hadn't ever used one to any extent.
When I see people using cellphones that are so extraordinarily complex that they can barely figure out how to get them started let alone use all the innumerable functions, I wonder why people bother. Tapping out messages at a speed closer to the speed of darkness than the speed of light seems a mighty waste of time to me.
Trying to unlock the mysteries of the cellphone
Photo courtesy of Thomas Brandt, flickr.com
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