Friday, June 06, 2003

I jinxed it ... I had to go tempt the techno gods and brag about just how great my Nokia 3650 phone is and how much I was enjoying it.  I have done countless demos for people all over the place.  Well since I bragged about what a wonderful job Nokia/Symbian did on the system and how rock solid it is ... I got slapped back down to earth today. I was just about to enter a reg code for an application that I bought when the phone froze up.  I decided to just pull a hard reboot and restart the thing expecting it to recover its self and return to state.  WRONG! I restarted it and it hung.  I tried multiple restarts and still got the Nokia logo of death, no OS.  Being a software professional I knew that if reboots don't work ... start changing things.  I took out the battery, the SIM, the MMC card in various orders and finally found that if I took out the MMC card it would boot again.  2 hours of research and fancy trickery trying to keep the battery power on while sliding the MMC card back into the slot under the battery I finally was able to reformat the card using a system utility.  Thankfully I had just done a full back up the night before in prep for my travels next week.  None of us are perfect in software, but we all have a very long way to go.   Atleast I got my phone back up and running.  9:01:40 PM    comment []

Woo Hoo ... I am back Finally, I managed to get a few minutes to register FM Radio Station so I could get back to blogging.  Thanks for the help Stephen!  The past few weeks have been hell, too much to do, not enough sleep, way too much pressure.  I am getting ready to head out to Athens, Greece on Saturday which makes it even more challenging to get a few minutes to blog ... but I have plenty to say.  Sounds like an opportunity to catch up on my thoughts on the 10 hour British Airways flight I have to endure just to get to London.  10:30:43 AM    comment []