Beer & phones
Oct. 30th, 2007 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenI hear that Beer Circus, a fine little Belgian beer bar in Croydon, is closing this weekend, which is a great shame. Anyone fancy a visit before it's gone? Perhaps tomorrow night?
In other beer-related news, I'm scaling down the birthday weekend plans, as my mum's in town that weekend for her 70th and wants me to be around. Which is fair enough, I suppose. Perhaps the weekend after.
I'm still only online somewhat intermittently. I have a BT line again, so the landline number works once more, but ADSL will take another week or so. I'm going with UKonline, as they have no download caps or anything and seem to be a reasonably good deal, and unlike, say, Be, they offer 16MBs in my part of the world. O2's deals looked good but offer no coverage at all in my area, even for 8Mb/s, which surprises me. Any other recommendations? Must be uncapped - I download a lot - but otherwise so long as it can do at least rate-adaptive flat-out up to 8Mb, I'm interested.
I was considering switching to O2 in order to get a Nokia E90, which Vodafone still cannot deliver. And yet, I saw E90s on sale yesterday in TCR's Shyamtronics. I held one and had a play, albeit with no battery or SIM. I now want one even more than before. My lodger Bianca has very kindly loaned me her old Sagem myX-7, and I can honestly say that I have never hated a phone as much as this one. It is a modern-ish featurephone with a camera, colour screen, polyphonic ringtones, GPRS and infrared, and it is absolutely the nastiest mobile I have ever used. I also have a SonyEricsson P910i sitting around, but alas, it's locked to the wrong network. Recommendations of good competent unlocking places are sought. I've reflashed its firmware but that is not enough; the SE tool automatically loads the latest Orange firmware, curse it.
Speaking of phones, I am surprised to find this wonderfully authoritative essay. My reaction to learning that it's well-written, erudite, knowledgeable and incisive and yet human and witty - and then to discover that it's by Stephen Fry - was mixed. I had no idea that he was a geek, too. And an astonishingly knowledgeable one, which is par for his particular course, but still - is there anything this man cannot do?
In other beer-related news, I'm scaling down the birthday weekend plans, as my mum's in town that weekend for her 70th and wants me to be around. Which is fair enough, I suppose. Perhaps the weekend after.
I'm still only online somewhat intermittently. I have a BT line again, so the landline number works once more, but ADSL will take another week or so. I'm going with UKonline, as they have no download caps or anything and seem to be a reasonably good deal, and unlike, say, Be, they offer 16MBs in my part of the world. O2's deals looked good but offer no coverage at all in my area, even for 8Mb/s, which surprises me. Any other recommendations? Must be uncapped - I download a lot - but otherwise so long as it can do at least rate-adaptive flat-out up to 8Mb, I'm interested.
I was considering switching to O2 in order to get a Nokia E90, which Vodafone still cannot deliver. And yet, I saw E90s on sale yesterday in TCR's Shyamtronics. I held one and had a play, albeit with no battery or SIM. I now want one even more than before. My lodger Bianca has very kindly loaned me her old Sagem myX-7, and I can honestly say that I have never hated a phone as much as this one. It is a modern-ish featurephone with a camera, colour screen, polyphonic ringtones, GPRS and infrared, and it is absolutely the nastiest mobile I have ever used. I also have a SonyEricsson P910i sitting around, but alas, it's locked to the wrong network. Recommendations of good competent unlocking places are sought. I've reflashed its firmware but that is not enough; the SE tool automatically loads the latest Orange firmware, curse it.
Speaking of phones, I am surprised to find this wonderfully authoritative essay. My reaction to learning that it's well-written, erudite, knowledgeable and incisive and yet human and witty - and then to discover that it's by Stephen Fry - was mixed. I had no idea that he was a geek, too. And an astonishingly knowledgeable one, which is par for his particular course, but still - is there anything this man cannot do?
