Speckled Green

I’ve just had a realisation about how I treat smartphones these days. If I can’t afford the top-of-the-line phone, I ignore all the others in the middle and look at the ‘budget’ end phones (e.g. Nokia C6-01 or Nokia 700). It’s like I think to myself “If I can’t get the best, don’t bother settling for the next best thing. Stick with simple and let your iPod or PC handle the fancier functions.” So, somewhere in my mind, I’ve already decided that it’s the Samsung Galaxy S II or the Nokia 700. Not even going to consider the Samsung Galaxy S, or the HTC Aria, or whatever middle range phones there are. Read more »

I really should get around to removing all the non-backup duplicates of files I have on the computer. Such as the 2 extra copies of the photos of our New Zealand holiday in 2001 (or was it 2000? I cannot remember. Maybe it was 2002…). Or the 3 copies of my phone’s memory card. I’m sure that there’s not too many things of value on each copy that was different. I suppose after the HSC (probably around Christmas time, when I’m not partying, or on holidays, or watching movie marathons, or practising piano/flute/clarinet/guitar… can’t be practising piccolo any more by then because I’d have returned it to the school =[  Unless I buy my own) I can just go through the… (at this point I paused in my writing to find out how many files I have in my “Documents” Library) …54,093 files contained within 4,550 folders, taking up 39.9GB… Read more »

Been a little while since my last post (too lazy to find out when I did post last) and I thought I could just type out something quick. Although I’m not sure it’ll end up that way.

So, latest big event to happen to me was I met Matthew Reilly at the book signing in Parramatta last Thursday (13th Oct.). He was very friendly, and warned me to not read the new book until after I finish my HSC. Advice I plan to follow. Sadly, it is awfully hard to do that, and I am continually tempted to pull the book out and open it up to find out what happens in the latest instalment of the Scarecrow series. I’m hoping I can at least manage some level of self control and not read it until at least near the end of my HSC. And speaking of the HSC, I’m trying to not think about the looming nature of it, hence the title. Yes, I know, that doesn’t make much sense. Read more »

So, time is pushing me closer and closer to my HSC, and I’m sitting here typing up a blog post. Oh well. Beats playing games. I hope.

As I head towards my HSC, the distractions that a procrastinator looks for drives me to read stuff other than my text book. One of the things I looked up was the prices of unlocked phones. Needless to say, the prices for certain models have come down, although that has more of the fact that prices come down over time rather than the exchange rate changing, which recently has dropped us below parity with the US dollar, but that’s a whole other story. Anyways, what I want to know is why the Galaxy S II was listed on simplymobiles.com.au as $729, but the “Optus version” and white version are listed as $685. And they’re all unlocked and have the same specs listed. So what’s the difference in the price? Two got updated and someone forgot the normal Galaxy S II? Or is it about the popularity (supply & demand)? Read more »