Me and my steam-powered mobile phone: we are very happy together
This is my mobile phone.
It was probably invented before the fall of the Aztec Empire.
It was free.
When I lose it the equivalent will also be free.
To unlock it for other networks I had to pay the miserable moneygrubbing swine at Orange £25, though otherwise their service has been OK.
It cannot pretend that drops of water are running down it’s screen.
It cannot survive for 3 weeks without a charge.
It cannot even Twitter.
It cannot tell Google, GCHQ, or Jacqui of the barbed wire camiknickers and the most expensive spare room in the world (and now of unblessed memory), where I am when it is turned off.
It can store about 25 text messages.
It gets turned off when I am talking to people because they are more important.
We are very happy together.
This is William of Ockham. He is one of my heroes .
This is also a meme.
I’m tagging: Mike Rouse, Dave Cole, Charlotte Gore,who is looking for things to blog about, Carl Gardner the Freelance Intellectual (love the typewriter), Simon Dyda, The Devil, The Two Doctors, Phil Groom, Sadie Smith, and a bloke without a moustache .
The assignment: Your phone, exactly 139 words explaining why it is your phone, and a hero.
[Update: He liked it on Facebook, so I'll also serve a Freedom of Information request for details of his mobile phone on Tom Watson MP.]
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Although I was the Executive Officer responsible for issuing the licences the develop mobile ‘phones (when I was in the Home Office/DTI’s Radiocommunications Agency) I do not have one myself.
It has caused no difficulty as I grew up without them and learned how to live in that way. Some new technologies have proved invaluable and even indispensable — but I do not count these infernal and fiddly little gadgets among those.
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Mission accomplished:
http://carlgardner.co.uk/opinion/comments/my_zn5_and_a_hero/