10/01/2005 09:48:00 PM|||James O'Malley|||

I think I'm slowly turning into a robot- I seem to be accumulating a variety of different handheld gadgets, all of which will slightly enhance my ability to live life to the full. For example, when going to University the other day, I carried with me: (muggers, this is the bit you need to read... rapists, you can skip this)

Mobile Phone
Of course, I carry around my phone, keeping me in contact with the outside world, and thanks to a posh moblogging script I've written, I'll be able to send pictures back to my Pokémon site live. It has bluetooth, so I can link it up to my computer.

MP3 Player
It's a brick- a brick with built in wifi and 1.5gb hard disk. It's an Aireo, if that means anything to anyone.

Digital Camera
Another big brand name here- a 5 megapixel Vivitar digital camera- this actually allowed me to take the photo of a photo of me and Heather.

Pen Drive (512mb)
I have a pen drive as I'm that leet.

I addition, I have a Nintendo DS, which I would have bought with me, but I'm trying to get into books, so I look intelligent and so on.

Why am I telling you all of this? Aside the fact that when I'm out and about, I'm carrying over two gigabytes worth of storage space in four devices, I've bought yet another gimmicky piece of consumer electronics. I've bought a dictation machine. (64mb flash memory, if you're counting). The theory is, I'll record lectures and stuff, and then I'll be able to put them on my MP3 player. In reality, when I walk around, I sound like a medieval knight, and look like I have wider legs than I already do.

I suppose I'm writing this post as more of a warning than anything- if you, yes you try to rape me, you'd better watch out. Not only can I phone for help, take a photo of you to help identify you, and even pass the time whilst waiting for the police to come, I can now also record what you're saying to me- evidence that can and will be used against you in a court of law.

Rapists: owned.

In other gadgets news, or more specifically "James O'Malley's gadget's news"- don't get any ideas about me blogging about the latest technological innovations for your benefit, my laptop finally died the other day. It wouldn't boot into Windows, because of a corrupt install. I'm not going to reformat it because I need my data. It's had all number of other problems, including:

A battery that no longer holds charge, the contacts between power connector and laptop have become very loose, and as a result nudging the lead will cause it to power off (no battery, see?), dodgy keyboard since I spilt Coke all over it (no, really), the screen replacing all areas of "#000000" black on the screen with "#FF0000" red, and the screen flickering like an untuned TV unless the power lead is in just the right way.



Anyway, I've bought a hard disk caddy, and I'm currently playing the coroner, and carrying out an autopsy. I've managed to remove the battery and fan from the inside- but the important bit I need, the hard disk, is stuck in there. It's covered in a metal "thing", which is screwed into another "thing", which is connected to the big "thing".

The question is now: should I try and force it out? This could potentially fuck up the hardware, rendering it beyond repair?

Expect more dull updates about the hard disk saga in the future.

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