{"id":817,"date":"2004-06-01T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/06\/01\/817\/"},"modified":"2004-06-01T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T15:19:00","slug":"817","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/06\/01\/817\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new cell phone.  I&#8217;m not really happy about this.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, my family and I have had a chronic problem with going over our minutes, partly because we were all sharing the same plan and Ian and I used a lot more than Mom and Caitlan.  We only had 800 minutes between the four of us, which didn&#8217;t work out that well.  So it&#8217;s nice that Ian and I have our own plan, so Ian can ruin my credit instead of Mom&#8217;s.  Also we have twice as many minutes to use, and now that I have Cingular unlimited wireless-to-wireless, I should be using significantly fewer minutes anyway.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have to transfer all my contacts from Layla.  Manually.\n<\/li>\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokiausa.com\/phones\/3595\" title=\"&quot;Flair&quot; is secret code for &quot;ugly.&quot;\">new phone<\/a> is not Layla; it seems flimsier and less shiny, and definitely can&#8217;t be used as a flashlight.\n<\/li>\n<li>One nice thing is that it doesn&#8217;t have a broken extendable antenna.  Then again, it doesn&#8217;t have an extendable antenna at all, so when I have bad reception there&#8217;s not a lot I can do.\n<\/li>\n<li>Oh, and the new phone is not red.\n<\/li>\n<li>Plus its keypad buttons are that annoying two-in-one rocker style, which makes it more difficult to use without looking.\n<\/li>\n<li>And there aren&#8217;t as many of them, which means reduced functionality.\n<\/li>\n<li>But I can google from my pocket!  Which is something I&#8217;ve always wanted to do.\n<\/li>\n<li>But that&#8217;s going to end up costing me a lot of money, at a cent per kilobyte.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know, maybe I&#8217;ll learn to like it.  I did with Layla.  I still have Layla, in fact, although she doesn&#8217;t connect to anything anymore.  I&#8217;ll probably take her battery out once I&#8217;ve got all my contacts and stuff transferred, to use as a backup, since it&#8217;s the same kind as the new one.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways I still hate having a cell phone, but I&#8217;d grudgingly accepted Layla.  This newcomer is not so easy to handle.  I feel like a friend has moved away, and a smaller, more annoying person has taken her place.<\/p>\n<p>The new phone does J2ME apps, though.  I better get cracking if I&#8217;m going to port <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotfindskitten.org\/\" title=\"That really is the version number.\">rfk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new cell phone. I&#8217;m not really happy about this. On the one hand, my family and I have had a chronic problem with going over our minutes, partly because we were all sharing the same plan and Ian and I used a lot more than Mom and Caitlan. We only had 800 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,35,46,40,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-caitlan","category-family","category-ian","category-joan","category-landmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}