girl geek adjacent

On Wednesday night, I attended the Vodafone Get Smart event at their HQ in Auckland. Traffic was a nightmare, but I got there on time. I have a thing about being late. I commence anxiety attacks if running just slightly late. I was offered a free car park by Hamish Sansom via Twitter. According to his twitter profile he’s the head honcho for mobile data at Vodafone. Nice. I found my way through the carpark, to the elevator and then to reception. They had name tags, but I didn’t. But of note, they had a name tag there for someone who I knew was attending the event in Christchurch. I could have stolen it and pretended to be Andy Ghozali for the evening. But I’m the wrong gender for that. Never to mind. They made me a label. Read the rest of this entry »

A discussion tonight in the chatroom has sparked this blog post. My cellphone ownership history. Warts, Nokias and All. So please find detailed below all 10 cellphones over the last 10 years. This post is a wee detour from my 7 Year Telco Itch series Read the rest of this entry »

At some stage yesterday, I went from the old m.flickr.com, from which I could happily upload photos from to a new version, which is too wide for my phone’s display (see Nokia 6121) and I cannot find anywhere to upload my photos from. The good-ish news is that I can see the link to change back to the old m.flickr.com when I look at the site in Firefox on my PC, but its not there on my mobile. I am currently downloading Opera for Symbian, and will see if that fixes it, which it didn’t. But a quick trawl of the FAQ’s found the answer – Point your mobile phone browser to http://m.flickr.com/rp.gne and it will reset to the old m.flickr.com. Choice!