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Christmas tree is up and blinking

We’ve setup our Christmas decorations today.  This a bit later than we usually do it, but still much earlier than I feel we should do it.  Anyway.  Now everything is sparkling yellow, solid green, and blinking colors.  It looks nice and fresh, but there is definitely a need to switch some of the lights off at least once in a while…

Maxim and Cappa are overexcited about this whole Chritmas thing.  Cappa tries to climb up the tree and bangs on all the toys.  Maxim helps her to hit those chocolate balls in hope that they will fall off and he will be allowed to unwrap and eat them all.  Or spread them all over the walls and furniture in the most unaesthetic manner…

The Christmas is coming.

Getting rid of my hardware museum

In the pre-Christmas cleanup craze, I cleaned out the bigger part of my in-house computer history museum.   In cold blood, I threw away about 40 kilograms of computer hardware.  Among that were a few kilometers of network wires, all sorts of power and signal cables, power supplies, video cards, sound cards, network cards, keyboards, and more.  There were some really ancient things that no long work, like a 80386 laptop and a 9600 baud speed fax-modem with built-in printer and scanner.

But. I haven’t got rid of everything.  There are a few things which I could throw out just yet.  Such as motherboard with 80486 processor and 16 MBytes of memory.  I think it’s brand new or so.  It is still packed in anti-static envelope.  Also, there are a few cables that I have a suspicion that I might need one day.  Don’t ask…

On the nature of old things …

Here are some assorted points that will hopefully come together once I am finished writing them.

  • My mobile – Sony Ericsson P910 – looks very old and much used.
  • I got it second hand as a temporary solution.  I have feeling like it was three month ago or so.
  • Via “On this day” section of the sidebar, I am reminded of this post.
  • The biggest problem with this mobile was the broken keyboard.  A few month ago, I took it off. Now I use virtual keyboard via touch screen.
  • The second biggest problem with this phone that I had, was stylus.  I had only one and I lost it.  For a few month now I’m using just my finger.
  • I’ve heard about “temporary being the most permanent”.
  • A Polish colleague of mine once noted  that most people in Poland drive  very old cars. “A car of 25 years old is like brand new“, – he said.  He was only half joking.
  • I am looking for a new mobile phone to buy. I am not in a hurry.
  • Google Android stuff sounds very cool, and it will have a lot of future, and I will have one of those.  But they aren’t available yet.
  • iPhone is available.
  • So is BlackBerry.
  • I am not in a hurry.  By the time I will make my mind and decide to do something about my phone, probably Androids will be all over the place.

Yes, I am very slow sometimes.  But even if I am taken out of equation, like with those cars in Poland, there is one argument, which is very very simple, but is very very hard to overcome – “It works“.

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