Saturday January 24
 
13:34
 
New Toy

After giving Jun a 101 reasons why he shouldn’t buy a G1 as his DSLR, what do I do? Go out and buy a G1!

I’m nothing if not (in)consistent :)

I lost my P&S sometime in the past three weeks. A bit of a bummer because it was just 2 months old, but I’m more bothered about having lost the memory card than the camera – the camera wasn’t too hot.

As a DSLR replacement, I don’t think the G1 is great – limited lens selection and banding at ISO1600+ are two reasons why. However as a P&S replacement, the image quality is miles ahead of everything else. Sure, it’s bigger, but still smaller than my Sony 707, and it has a lovely 360 degree rotating screen. As I found out yesterday when using my D60, it’s a real pain to crouch down and look throw a viewfinder when using a tripod – the G1 should be right at home in that situation with live view, rotating screen, and no need to use high ISO.

Now if only the damn battery would finish charging, I could get to play with the thing!

Tuesday March 4
 
09:45
 
What is going on with my phone?

For the last two days it appears that the 7am alarm has not gone off, but the 8am alarm goes off fine. I’ve confirmed the settings – volume, 10 minutes, snooze, sounds.

Now I have been known to sleep through the 7am alarm, despite that it goes off every 10 minutes. That’s why I have the 8am alarm, with a louder chime. The 8am alarm means “stop using the snooze, you 怠け者” (na-ma-ke-mo-no – Japanese for “lazy arse”).

Yesterday I woke up by the 8am alarm, so I couldn’t be sure that the 7am alarm didn’t go off – but this morning I woke up and checked the phone at 7:48. There was no message to say “in snooze mode”, which there should be.

I have had problems with this phone before when the internal speaker broke. In that case, the alarm went off, but no sound came out. In this case, however, there is was no message at all to even confirm the alarm went off.

Racking my brains on the way in, I can think of only these reasons:

1. It’s f*cked ( – that’s that technical reason of the set)
2. It’s a conspiracy (just like my weight rising today)
3. It’s a side effect of watching Lost last night, and so my phone passed out and thought it was in 1996 at 6.59am – 7:48am.
4. It’s a bug related to me switching my phone to Japanese menus.
5. I received a message at 7:23 which cancelled the alarm.

The last one I only thought of about 10 minutes ago, and while it seems like a stupid bug, I wouldn’t put it past the phone to have a stupid bug like that. Koreans make fantastic products, but they often have little bugs – for example, even though when my phone is set to English, it always defaults to Japanese when typing text on mobile internet.

However, out of all the reasons I can think of – it’s the only one that is remotely understandable. I need to test.