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It's time to get a new cellphone and while my venerable Nokia 3310 served me well (remember how utterly cool it was when it first came out?) it now sucks ass.

What I'm mlooking for is a nice solid phone with a big, clear display, qwerty keyboard, mp3 player and lots of memory for data and MP3's. I don't really want a camera and there aren't any GPRS services that seem worth it at this stage. And forget 3G, I'm a classic late-adopter and am really not interested in expensive, poor service.

Actually the one thing I really want is a phone that will encode to MP3 from line-in or radio. The Nokia 3300 does that but it comes with a measly 64MB MMC card and more roomy cards are reely expensive. I hope that Nokia will be making a follow-up to the 3300 (with a qwerty keyboard).

There's nothing in the Nokia range that really grabs me at the moment so my eyes are starting to wander to Samsung, Siemens and (shock horror) Motorola - I feel dirty just for admitting that. Anita had a Motorola and it sucked ass from day one. I should refuse to even say hmmmoto out of principal.

Or am I actually looking for a PDA with built-in GSM?

I have a little sore on the tip of my tongue. No, it's not herpes - it's more like a little pimple. it sucks.
The nerve to which it is attached is going berserk and I find myself speaking with a noticable lisp just so as not to touch it.

Still no company car (it's on order) and work is going through another boring cycle *sigh*.

reminder to self: remember to blog that notion about bisexuality sometime.

Tonite (AFAIK) is Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year (in these parts) and also a long awaited milestone on the clockwork (but seemingly endless) march to spring.

Minute, incremental preparation for the antapex of the cold and dark slice of our endless sine wave is a favourite of mine - another manifestation of my gotta-have-something-to-look-forward-to trait.

music: listened to Sultans of Swing(the Alchemy version) on Saturday nite. OK, fine - Mark Knopfler is a god.

Took Anita to the doctor today. While waiting I started reading Wine magazine, but the knowing tone and ads for luxury German sedans and private banking just didn't gel with me. Found a copy of the original Where's Wally among the children's books.
Martin Handford really does deserve the money for coming up with such an ingenious series - hours of fun.

Tomorrow is Youth Day in commemoration of the Sharpeville Massacre. I'm finding that every year I feel more strongly about the important events in the struggle to bring democracy to South Africa and less and less for similar events in the history of the Afrikaner nation (my heritage). I'm ready to let go of that history completely - it is irrelevant.
It feels good to only want to be part of South Africa as it is today.

This is wonderful. Now all I need is one of them fancy wireless thingies.

mmm.. I've had a bad cough the last few days - and I'm starting to run out of throat lozenges.

A sales drone from IBM just sent me the following illuminating bit of schtick.

WebSphere(R) Business Integration Connect provides a flexible and powerful
solution for creating an extended community integrating internal business
applications and processes with trading partner interactions

whoohoo.