If you believe that your number may be held as a contact in my phone, that might not be the case.
A minor technical issue has led to the loss of my contacts.
While I’m sure I made a back-up a little while ago, I may have mislaid it. I’ve found one from 2011, but think it’s going to be way too outdated to use.
The MX4 Pro was unveiled today. That’s the phone rumoured to be released with Ubuntu as an operating system.
The model featured on the Meizu web site, however, runs Android.
While I’m still hoping for an Ubuntu version soon, I have to admit that this is an impressive phone.
As I’d feared, the karotz shall soon be silent.
I fear that the writing’s on the wall for karotz; they seem destined to follow the path of the nabaztag.
Which is a real shame since it’s a cool concept.
It’s important to back-up your hard drive now and again. I’ve built, used and repaired computers for a very long time now and have always been careful to back everything up. Well, apart from that one time when I formatted a D:\ drive I’d been using to back-up, after copying everything to a new hard drive on a computer I’d just built. And, of course, the new drive failed and I lost almost everything.
I’d never been one for keeping boxes of paper, so everything was on the hard drive. Scans of kids’ drawings, homework, silly stuff they’d typed. And stuff from both of my degree courses.
That was a decade ago now and I’ve been very conscious lately that I’d not done a back-up in a while. So now I am.
This may take some time.
Today, I spent eight quid on a light bulb. Really. Ok, it was an LED bulb, technically not a light bulb at all. But it’s brighter and lasts 25 years, so that makes it worthwhile.
It’s a lot brighter than it looks.
I was going to mention beer, but thought that I probably shouldn’t, since I tend to do that way too much.
But, I do need to say that the pint I had today from Out There, in the Bridge Tavern, was beautiful. Sadly, I didn’t take a picture.
I also found a most interesting beer, which I so want to be vegan/vegetarian. And, if it isn’t, why hasn’t someone named a beer (unfined, that is) Schrodinger’s cat before?
I’ve asked the brewer about fish bits, but haven’t had a reply yet.
Oh, our new light bulb …
It seems that the Ubuntu phone is soon to be a reality. Hopefully.
I was quite happy with the rather outdated version of Microsoft Office that I’ve been using at work for the past few years. It hadn’t changed a lot since the 90s, apart from some cosmetics. Everything was in a sensible place and reasonably quick to use.
At home, I’ve been using Open Office or Libre Office for years. They’re nicer to use than the Microsoft package, but work in a similar way. Most important, they’re free.
But today my world has changed. At least at work. A rather beautiful new computer arrived today, with two large screens. It does all look rather nice, although I’ll miss Windows XP. I’ll also miss Office 2003 (or whatever it was).
While I only use Windows 7 at home for iTunes, I can tolerate it. But the new works Office (2013?) is horrendous. It seems to be an exercise in cosmetics rather than productivity. Hardly any of the familiar functions are easy to find and everything takes much longer than it used to. I know I’ll get used to it, but it’s not at all intuitive. I just hope that the open source alternatives don’t follow Microsoft’s lead.
And, yes, I needed to work late because Word trashed the formatting of the paper I was working on.
So the iPhone 6 has been on show. I’m on my second iPhone, an almost end of contract iPhone 5. I love the phones, even though they’re ridiculously overpriced, and had, until a few months ago, intended staying with Apple with my next upgrade. But, with a bit of luck, I’ll be parting company with my iPhone in a little while. That’s reliant on the launch of the Ubuntu phone going ahead, of course. I appreciate that there’ll be no more than 50 apps available when it’s launched, and the phone’s unlikely to be on sale on the high street. But I like the idea of a phone running linux (properly). With a bit of luck it’ll happen.