I'm back in the states, where in order to protect your freedom, you aren't allowed to have any water on flights originating or terminating within its boundaries. In my absence, this country has gone mad.

Briefly regarding my contact situation: my main laptop had a bit of a problem a while ago with a short, a fire, and the smell of burning plastic/rubber (but the machine itself I think is fine, I just need to get a new transformer, which I should now be able to do as I'm more sedentary). My electronic mail and all other services have been resumed, and my normal e-mail (at this domain) should be used once-more effective immediately since (somewhat interestingly), the machine hosting my temporary e-mail--which I had been forced to switch to since I could not use either my primary nor Brown e-mail anymore--lot service the day I flew back.

Once I get the laptop issue cleared-up and have some time, I'll post more about the past few months. There's a lot of organizational stuff I need to take care-of, and I'm still living in the wrong timezone.

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As a piggy-back, my honeymoon with the E61 obviously finished:

Bugs: If you try and open the image gallery (e.g. "Insert->Image" from the MMS menu or "Use Selected image for Video calls"), the first-time only seems to initialize the gallery but not launch it (or there is possibly just a very
long delay). Nevertheless, reapplying the same command quickly brings up the gallery.

Different programs can make use of the same components, e.g. you can launch the message writing (e-mail, MMS) from the file manager, contacts, or obviously the messaging component. When launched, these all retain the identity of the launching program, which can sometimes be confusing when switching tasks. If you save the message to a draft, you must resume from the messaging component. My opinion: I think writing a message should launch its own writing process, which could allow for multiple messages, would allow you to switch to the messaging program to view the message you're replying to or regarding, and would be more consistent.

It also won't let you do anything with unknown files sent via bluetooth; you can't even save them to "others" despite it being a default directory.

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I'm quite annoyed with T-Mobile. I spent hours talking to multiple people, and I still don't know what the reality is of anything. I tried getting their 802.11 WiFi service. I was told that it'd work with my computer, then that it wouldn't unless I got this special Sony card. Well, maybe it would if I could install this software; oh but you have a Mac? Oh, Linux? No, it won't work on that. Also, I have dozens of messages saying that as a T-Mobile user I can just pop down to a Telefonica hotspot, or an Orange hotspot, or your local-carrier-of-choice, and use their service. But maybe not I'm told when I actually talk to a human because despite what the message says, it isn't part of my service, so I can't do this; I could do this if I added it to my plan however, but then there's still roaming fees associated with that.

Roaming charges for the Wi-Fi? I've never seen this fine print, granted I probably wasn't paying much attention to it. Dealing with Telefonica directly for a new plan was its own mesh of mixed messages an unclear communication. A man in Madrid would sell me a plan for three months, but only if I had a Spanish bank account; in Alicante I needed to have a year-long contract. It didn't matter though because Telefonica only sells their data-plan to businesses, despite it being listed on their web site. Basically, "telecoms suck" is a universal.

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Finally, I've been thinking about base 12 an awful lot recently, and then found that link in my aggregator.