Thomasaj.com

I’m growing up today. Yay. Thanks a lot for all the presents and congratulations. You know who you are, and you’re the best! Thanks. (:

Sadly, there’s been yet another blogging drought from yours truly. It has its reasons however, but hopefully things will pick up again now. (read:workwork)

In an earlier post I asked for some help and advice on buying a new phone. And boy, did you guys deliver. I got some really helpful and insightful comments in the post itself, and even a couple of e-mails. This is me thanking you. Thanks.

As I’m sure some of you now know the phone of choice ended up to be the iPhone. Yes, the iPhone. I have to admit that I’ve been a member of the many, many apple ‘haters’ around the internets (iSheep) for a while, but as Bjørn said in a comment, the iPhone is years ahead of anything I’ve ever tried.

The pros are simply too many to write about, but the app store is a stroke of genius. I can’t imagine having a phone without that option. Thankfully, it seems the competition are catching up to apple with their own stores.

There are a couple of drawbacks with the phone however, battery capacity being a major one.

After one month use I am as satisfied as I can be. Simply the best phone I’ve ever used. Perhaps some day I’ll write something more in-depth about my experiences with it. Don’t hold your breath, though. Thanks again.

Written and published using the Wordpress app on the iPhone. (it sadly lacks any decent form of using HTML-tags, so pardon the lack of proper formatting)

Yep yep yep.  I am now a criminal. Received a parking ticket for parking where parking always has been legal. Turns out it is legal no more! (Hollendergata(by Gaarder Sport) in Fredrikstad for the curious) Extremely annoying – 500,- for parking where I’ve always parked. Turns out that since they are doing maintenance/building stuff nearby they’ve removed the parking sign. I didn’t notice.

Good thing my paycheck came on friday. : (

Hey, you! Yes. You. I want your help.  I’m in dire need of a new phone.  My trusted Sony Ericsson K850i has kicked the bucket! It is no more! It never really was that trusted either, kept locking up on me, refused to accept incoming messages and acted like a bitch at (most) times! Its behaviour has made me turn from the love child of swedish and japanese scientists to … this is where you come in.

I haven’t got the slightest idea of what to get. I’ve been contemplating the iPhone, a couple of Nokias ( N82 / N95 ), HTC Diamond and many others. These are all smartphones. Do I really need a smartphone? I used my K850i mainly for texting and calling. The camera was handy at times, but it never really was that important.  It had a pretty mediocre solution for playing music, so I never used it.  I would love a phone that could subscribe to podcasts and quench my thirst for Radioresepsjonen, though. One device. Multiple uses. Phone. Camera. MP3-player.  Portable Gaming. GPS. I would love a phone giving me all this. But what to get? Please leave  a comment with your suggestions or e-mail me at ‘thomas at this domain’. Cheers.  (:

Phew.  Finally getting back on track. Updated Thomasaj.com with the latest wordpress release and all the plugins are now up-to-date as well. It has been bugging me for weeks now,  feels great to have won another battle against my procrastinating self.  Everything seems to work like intended, but if you are experiencing any problems, bugs or just want to send me an email please do so at thomas at this domain.

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