.. a recap on phones

So my faithful HTC died on me a couple of weeks ago. :-( Why? I do not know. - well maybe it had to do something with all the flashing - but then again I will never know for sure. Thats 460 dollars down the drain.

All efforts and procedures posted on xda and android authority where futile. So I finally swallowed my ego and asked a buddy of mine in the office to have a look at it - again nothing -. Luckily though I work with some pretty nice ching chongs in the office and he took it to china and am still waiting. Hopefully they can bring her back to life.

Now back to the story at hand. With no smartphone to flash around I was back to my nokia 1616 better known as "muliks" or "mulika mwizi" because of the torch it sports at the front. Hmmmm! Not ideal at all. So since I did not want to spend another 50K on a phone  - not that i cold afford it anyway - I asked my pal if I could use her phone which she wasn't using at the time. In its hey day it was a god of the phone world, if you had one you could literally win an election! , but  in a world of dual cores, super AMOLED screens, HD video recording the N97 stood no change and had to give up the crown to the galaxy nexus which in turn had to hand it over to the samsung captivate whose reign was overturned by the HTC sensation... you get the drift, and most annoyingly Nokia does NOT natively support wireless AP, and if you install barnacle wi-fi tether it only supports ad-hoc networks, which by the way android does not connect to!

At this point I was ready to tear my hair out! It not took a slap on the forehead to realize I still got U8150 or an IDEOS better know as IDIOT. It is definately not the Rolls Royce of smartphones not by a long shot. Infact the only thing more similar to a smartphone in this case is my right kidney. Really? It does all that I want from a phone: Call, SMS, take pictures albeit terrible ones, create w-fi hotspots that I can use with my computer, laptop, tablet and even my PS3 for online gaming! How about that?

So then it may look like the hooker mwende, a terrible touch screen and a less than forgiving UI but for 6K its a bargain. Don't buy it!

...... My new hard drive part 2

So after updating my BIOS and after setting the SATA controller to RAID/AHCI it works like a charm.So now I have 3.25 TB sweet! (My pal has 10TB but thats too much for me...no?) Thing is though did not finnish to reinstall my (pirated) copy of windows 7, because genius me taught my 2 year old angel what a UPS is and how to switch on/off my desktop. You can guess what happened: yes in the middle of an installation, she decided that green LED buttons look better when off.. :-(

.....my new hard drive

so today I got my new WD 2 TB Caviar green SATA drive; feel like running home to install it. It always gives me the tingles when I get to open something. just crossing my fngers it works and its not fried. Then comes the hard part, but even more fun: a fresh installation is due... :-) then to partition my drives again am beside myself! :-)  

Kenyan?

I dont know if this is the kenyan in me or what? Had a function at work (which had no relation to my work) and I happily walked in in the morning to supplement my coffee with some nice juicy samosas which I had on the rocks a few hours earlier. After that I pretended to be interested what was being shown and i walked out again, my enzymes pretty satisfied. At lunch hour i became aware again that the presentation was still on, so I waltz back in there and once again was very busy looking at the screens before indulging in a sumptous lunch.. Am I evil?