That sinking feeling…

The sinking feeling when you realise you’ve just clicked “OK” and you *really* should have picked “Cancel”…

On Tuesday I was (as usual) doing half-a-dozen things at once, when I was prompted to update something. Now, with the apple, I pretty much always update everything immediately - it’s easy, and keeps the machine running nicely. So, without really reading the dialogue box properly I clicked “yeah go ahead” and carried on with what I was doing…

About 30 minutes later a new dialogue popped up saying “restarting your iPhone - do not disconnect”

That’s when I got that sinking feeling. In fact I got the feeling that can best be summed up by bomberman “MISTAKE!!!”

But, by then, it was too late, my iPhone had been upgraded to a non-jailbroken version of the 2.1 firmware - which meant I was locked out, and no longer had a functioning phone.

<sigh> that will teach me to *read* the fricking dialogues before I make a choice.

All was not lost however, thanks to the fantastic work of the iPhone Dev Team I was able to get the phone unlocked and activated again.

It only took me 2 hours - mostly because I had a bitch of a time getting the phone to go into DFU mode. 

And I’m never making a choice without carefully reading the options again.

Decisions, decisions

One of the nice things about Fuzzy working for a US based company is that he travels there a lot.

This means I have access to cool consumer electronics I can’t get here.

His next trip is in January - co-incidentally just before my birthday - which means I can ask for a toy….

But I don’t know which I want

the iPhone (which is a seriously cool piece of kit)

or the Sony Reader Digital Book

See - Although the iPhone has serious cool on its side, the fact of the matter is - I spend *way* more time reading ebooks on the train than I do listening to music - and given most of my journey doesn’t get phone reception I’m not going to be doing a lot of web surfing either.

And my Blackberry 8800 actually does all the things an iPhone does - just not in such an ubercool way…

But it’s an *iPhone* - if I had an iPhone people will look at me with envy. I could use it to pick up girls, everyone will want to know how I got it.

No-one has ever thought you were cool because you were reading on the train - even if you have disguised what book it is. So I don’t think I’d get that kind of street cred with an e-book reader… in fact I can imagine to conversation now…

“What’s that?”
“It’s an e-book reader. It let’s me read electronic books.”
“Oh, so it’s interactive right - you can like play games.”
“Umm no - just read regular books - like now I’m reading Bleak House by Charles Dickens.”
“OK - why don’t you just carry a regular book?”
“Ahh but this lets me carry lots of books in a lighter package. Right now I have 160 books loaded on it.”
“Wow! How many are you reading?”
“well - just the one…”
“….”
“But when I finish it - I’ll immediately have another book available”
“So - you spent a lot of money to avoid the risk that you might have to go more than 10 minutes without something to read.”
“yes”
<<thinks>> what a nerd <</thinks>> “oh”

See - just doesn’t have the street cred.

But the thing is… I would spend a lot of money to avoid the risk I might have to go more than 10 minutes without something to read…

So what do I do?

Go for the apotheosis of cool?
Or embrace my inner nerd?

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