Oh 'eck, ma script isnae workin'
Dec. 14th, 2007 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenMy fondness for Nemi comics is by now, I am sure, well-known. So on Tuesday I was enthused to read in Metro that the first Nemi "album" in English is coming out. ("Album" is what they call it in Scandiwegian - Titan are just calling it a "book", which seems a lot duller. I have the Swedish and Norwegian ones already.)
But, better still, Metro was running a competition to win one of a couple of dozen copies, signed by authoress and artist Lise Myhre. However, it closed at midnight and I was going to be at Skeptics in the Pub all evening, getting home too late to enter.
Now, I have a whizzy smartphone again these days, courtesy of a friend - it's a Sony-Ericsson P910i, the to my mind classic example of the P-series. It has a Web browser, but I'd never set up data connectivity on it. A shame, really - it would've been very handy at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darth_tigger's birthday drinkie in Nottingham, as birthday girl Jess & I were the first to turn up to the pub and she instantly gathered a pair of the sort of drunken loonies you always devoutly hope won't sit next to you on the bus. The male part, loud, dogmatic and very dim, amongst many other things including randomly speaking in a rotten Polish accent, insisted for some reason that Yellowstone was in Canada. I knew it wasn't, but couldn't remember where it was. He wanted me to look it up on Google and I would have been glad to in the hope that proving it wasn't anywhere near Canada would have caused him to stomp off in a huff. Even in a minute and a huff.
But I'd not set up connectivity on it, and doing so on Vodafone is significantly harder than it was a few years ago on T-Mobile.
But as I was - gasp! - early for Skeptics, I sat on the office steps opposite the pub and called Vodafone for help. The tech support bod, Elizabeth, was initially not at all confident about supporting a non-Vodafone device, but she sent me a couple of magic text messages, the phone happily imported the settings therein and lo, I was online. Remarkably quickly and easily.
So off I went to http://www.metro.co.uk - Only to find that the wretched Symbian web browser doesn't support Javascript. It just pops up a little notification saying "Javascript page". Incredibly frustrating.
What is the point, in this day and age, of a browser that doesn't do Javascript and Flash and so on? It's like offering an expensive premium ticket to the cinema, only when you get there, all you're allowed to see are a selection of tiny stills from the film, whereas everyone else gets the moving image on a big screen.
So, no chance of a signed Nemi album for me. :¬( It makes me even more annoyed with myself that a few years back in Stockholm, when visitingsuaveswede, I missed the chance to meet Lise when she did a signing at SF Bokhandeln. Why? 'Cos I didn't get up early enough. I was probably hungover. [Sigh]
But, better still, Metro was running a competition to win one of a couple of dozen copies, signed by authoress and artist Lise Myhre. However, it closed at midnight and I was going to be at Skeptics in the Pub all evening, getting home too late to enter.
Now, I have a whizzy smartphone again these days, courtesy of a friend - it's a Sony-Ericsson P910i, the to my mind classic example of the P-series. It has a Web browser, but I'd never set up data connectivity on it. A shame, really - it would've been very handy at
darth_tigger's birthday drinkie in Nottingham, as birthday girl Jess & I were the first to turn up to the pub and she instantly gathered a pair of the sort of drunken loonies you always devoutly hope won't sit next to you on the bus. The male part, loud, dogmatic and very dim, amongst many other things including randomly speaking in a rotten Polish accent, insisted for some reason that Yellowstone was in Canada. I knew it wasn't, but couldn't remember where it was. He wanted me to look it up on Google and I would have been glad to in the hope that proving it wasn't anywhere near Canada would have caused him to stomp off in a huff. Even in a minute and a huff.But I'd not set up connectivity on it, and doing so on Vodafone is significantly harder than it was a few years ago on T-Mobile.
But as I was - gasp! - early for Skeptics, I sat on the office steps opposite the pub and called Vodafone for help. The tech support bod, Elizabeth, was initially not at all confident about supporting a non-Vodafone device, but she sent me a couple of magic text messages, the phone happily imported the settings therein and lo, I was online. Remarkably quickly and easily.
So off I went to http://www.metro.co.uk - Only to find that the wretched Symbian web browser doesn't support Javascript. It just pops up a little notification saying "Javascript page". Incredibly frustrating.
What is the point, in this day and age, of a browser that doesn't do Javascript and Flash and so on? It's like offering an expensive premium ticket to the cinema, only when you get there, all you're allowed to see are a selection of tiny stills from the film, whereas everyone else gets the moving image on a big screen.
So, no chance of a signed Nemi album for me. :¬( It makes me even more annoyed with myself that a few years back in Stockholm, when visiting
suaveswede, I missed the chance to meet Lise when she did a signing at SF Bokhandeln. Why? 'Cos I didn't get up early enough. I was probably hungover. [Sigh]
