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Monday, 12:00 am in Geeking

No, seriously.  This is the only way I can leave my PDA that gives it a reliable chance of actually synching.  The little cable thing is, well, shit-tacular, and it doesn’t seem to like to register its existence unless some kind of force is applied to push it up against its socket.  Quality.  Synching in general is just really ‘fun’; the only other thing I’ve ever synched is my phone (a Sony Ericsson W900i) which has always just been a matter of “turn on Bluetooth, open iSync, go”, and it just works.  I only wish it were that easy with the PDA!  It’s exceedingly temperamental, dodgy cord or no dodgy cord; it’s slightly easier via Bluetooth, but again, that’s assuming it actually connects in the first place.

And just when I almost had it worked out, I installed thing certificate-cum-encryption-cum-device-protection thing on it, so not only did it change the name of the device (thus killing all my past synch history), but it then required a password to ActiveSync and Missing Sync doesn’t ‘do’ passwords over Bluetooth apparently.  Luckily, it does them over USB, so after manually connecting it and saving the password in my keychain, I was then able to re-establish a link over Bluetooth.  The thing is, I probably technically shouldn’t be able to synch the PDA with my laptop at all, since it’s a departmental asset and Vexxis isn’t, but I’ve got no idea if it’s the kind of thing you can lock down.  Probably.

I should be getting a bunch of tax back soon (assuming I get around to filling in my tax return, and when I say ‘me’ I mean “me and dad because, like, tax? WTF is that?”) because I’ve only been working since February, but they deduct tax as if you’ve been working the whole year.  So I have to ask the Big Question; do I care enough to use some of my tax to buy myself my own PDA?  ~Mat [h]’s totaly unbiased advice goes something along the lines of, “A-hahahahahaha!  WTF?”, but I dunno.  I’m exceedingly forgetful, and since I’ve started keeping it, I’ve lived off my iCal To Do list.  It would be awesome to keep all that kind of stuff in my pocket, not to mention that if I got my own PDA, I’d get one with a wireless card and use it to obsessively check my email.  I’m not a big fan of smartphones; they’re too big to be mobiles* and too small to be PDAs, and short of being one of those people who walks around with Bluetooth doovers sticking out of their ears, Cybermen-style**… actually I could totally see that.

Except for the fact that I’ve never really liked those headset things.  ~Mat [h] got me one, once.  Though I guess it might solve the problem of me never answering my phone since I never hear it ringing in my bag (and even if I do, I can never answer it in time).

Anyway…

Sometimes, I almost wish I still cared about lulzfur drama.  That was something I worked out pretty early, I think; that to truly ‘make’ it in the anthro art community you either had to be really good, really original, really social or really loud.  I’m pretty mediocre, not particularly original and pretty shit poor at making (and keeping) friends, which only left me with the latter option.  And for a while at least it was… I dunno.  It wasn’t hilarious, because it was nerve-wracking.  It wasn’t even really all that fun, since there was far too much keeping up with the Beautifuls, as it were.  It might have been a kind of self-expression – a brief fling with DIY fashion – and it was definitely an escape.

But mostly… mostly I think it was about power.

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* And coming from me, this is saying something.  I mean, have you seen the W900i?

** Lulmygoz spoilerz!

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