See that post below this one? The one where I infer that twitter is shit?
I am wrong on that call I reckon, and also right, stay with me here while I explain.
See, Twitter, in its inception was a social tool, and most folks, myself included would make remarkably dull twitters;
muttley is: idly doing fuck all.
muttley is: making a cuppa whilst staring out of a window.
muttley is: going for a shit.
Not exactly Anne Franks diary I think you will agree. So there, see Twitter = shite.
Well no, actually. Twitter has, by dint of everyone trying it for 2 weeks till they got bored, entered our collective conciousness. This has lead some actually interesting people to start, well, twittering:
Barack
Graham
Stephen
To name but three.
See? Twitter + interesting people = not so shit after all. My apologies.
I still prefer tumblr though.
It occurred to me the other day that I tend to do the same set of things every time I get a new mobile, and since I do that at least once a year (hey I’m a geek) I thought I would relate. I can’t be the only one who does it, right?
- Spend 10 mins finding where the fuck all the functions are in the menus, and bemoaning the fact that for the majority of mobile phone manufactures, creating a USEABLE and LOGICAL UI is a complete and utter mystery.
- Discover that all the games shipped as standard are wank
- Wonder briefly why everyone hasn’t gotten together to figure out a standard format for storage of addressbook entries. As opposed to appending random characters to the name.
- Spend tedious hour teaching the T9 text entry to spell things like fuck, and shit, and bastard, and cuntbubble. To be fair this isn’t something you usually do in one go, oh no, its something you do every time you send a text for the first 6 months, getting increasingly infuriated with the spacky method of adding entries to the dictionary.
- Spend 10 mins trying to reassign the pointless “connect to the internet” button that is invariably placed right where a the “create new text message” button ought to be, but isnt.
- Seriously consider going back to using your old phone, not because its better but because you are at least familliar with the shitty UI on the old one.
There will be more, I just cant be arsed to type any more, what about you lot?
Ask them what they want, thus:
Please indicate the portable spec you want below
Processor:
Intel Celetron Intel Centrino Intel Pentium D
AMD Turion AMD Sempron
Clock Speed:
<1Ghz 1-2Ghz 2-4Ghz 4-6Ghz
Memory:
<1Gb 2-4Gb >4Gb
HD:
720p 1080i
Ram:
<40Mb 40Mb-80Mb 80-120Mb
OS:
Windows 97 Windows XP
Software:
Office 95 Office XP Pro
Screen Size:
<14" 15-21" >21″
Network Interface:
10/100 Ethernet Gb Ethernet
Wlan
802.11b/g 802.11j
Then laugh at the results.
I am an evil man.
