geeklawyer, despite being a geek and technology buff doesn’t always appreciate the total wizziness of progress until he experiences it rather than merely reading about it in reports. A moment of clarity descended today.
Some days ago Geeklawyer saw his drinking buddy, Harry Metcalfe, browsing the web on a wi-fi mobile phone and thought this quite interesting. Obviously he knew of this capability but had been unimpressed when using an old non hi-speed phone himself when Googling for news of the exciting 9/11.
5 years on: his phone was providing an unrewarding experience and his palm 5 was likewise showing its old bones. So, despite the privacy implications of relinquishing anonymous pay-as-you-go Virgin mobile & having MI5 & the filth track his phone calls, he took a 3G/bluetooth/wi-fi smartphone/PDA + contract with T-Mobile & an ‘all you can eat’ data plan.
Now he can sit in the pub sending emails from his phone and writing drunken ramblings on his blog: e.g…
Does life get any better? Not until smartphones do blow jobs, no.
I want one!
Well, one with wi-fi and 3G and web facilities, I’m not interested in the other suggested services.
Ruthie has only had this capability for, like, 2 years. Call yourself a geek? Amateur.
[…] A lawyer at a firm that shall remain nameless to hide their shame told Geeklawyer that he is unable to read this blog at work because it is blocked by his firms web filtering software due to the ‘high level of swearing’. Geeklawyer is unaware of which system is in use there but he’d be interested to hear whether any other readers are having the same issue (he assumes that they read it at home or on their snazzy smartphone or they wouldn’t know of the question and .. well … you know: just thought it needed saying before some smartarse pointed that out). […]
[…] Geeklawyer now has a top of the range 3G mobile, purchased after reading about Ruthie’s. His phone is far superior. Ruthie therefore intends to steal it. […]
Who said lawyer+ geek = dull nerd in need of a humour transplant? Whomever they ar, they’re wrong. Great stuff.
thanks dennis!
[…] Geeklawyer has a spiffy 3G mobile phone; a source of envy and even potential larceny. His phone company is T-Mobile. So some concern then when that the Register reported that T-Mobile have it in their terms and conditions that voice-over IP and instant messaging are banned. For those not familiar with voice-over IP it is a totally whizzy way of making free, or very cheap, phone calls over the Internet. The down side for phone companies is that it means you may pay 2p a minute to someone else to ring Moldova rather than pay 25p a minute to them. Predictably they are not that happy with the threat VoIP poses. All VoIP needs is a permanent net connect and suitable software and hardware: most people with PCs will only need to buy an external microphone. Skype provide an excellent VoIP service that lets you talk for free to other Skype users or at a very low rate, 2 eurocents a minute, to non-skype phone users. Skype provide a package for Geeklawyers T-Mobile MDA Pro Windows Mobile phone which he has installed and used very successfully. […]
[…] Of course since phones are now mini-computers Geeklawyer is no longer limited to the Times crossword puzzle: when Quake 3 comes out for Windows Mobile 5 he’ll totally be playing that. The judge may however express surprise and displeasure when Geeklawyer yells out: “YES!! DIE YOU STROGG MOTHERFUCKER” just as the witness takes his oath. […]
[…] For an eternity Geeklawyer has been trying to get his superflash phone to act as a modem for his Apple laptop, and failing in truly monumental style. In a moment of rare and uncharacteristic self-doubt he wondered if perhaps he was not, after all, both an alpha male lawyer and an alpha geek. […]