Top 10 reasons you know you need a new cell phone

10) Your cell phone doesn't have a qwerty keypad

9) You can't connect your cell phone to your computer

8) Your cell phone doesn't have a camera (what is it with cameras and cell phones?)

7) You can't play music on your cell phone

6) You can't download any applications for your cell phone

5) You can't check your email on your cell phone

4) You can''t surf the web on your cell phone

3) You have to take out the battery every 15 minutes to use your cell phone

2) Your mother's cell phone is newer than yours

1) Your mother tells you that you need a new cell phone

More Introspection

A little background for those of you that don't know: here

I'm trying to tear a hole in the wall of how I felt as a child, even if I'm blinded by what I see.

Of what little I see is possibly anger hatred directed at whom?

Situation, G-d, the disease, maybe even my brother I don't know.

So in the end I am irrevocably damaged in ways I can't really imagine. I know others have suffered just as much when they were children (if not more so), but I think they have an inner strength I do not have.

I probably would've had my own significant issues even if my father had no problems. I think I'd still have trouble believing in myself.

No one will believe in myself for me... Where does that lack of self-confidence come from? I don't believe in anything for myself.

What about the pervasive pessimism? That's been with me since before I can remember. Where does it come from? How do I extricate something that has been there so long?

The logic inside is only a wall so no one can see what I'm really feeling – can't even see it for myself.

Would I still have become a programmer if my father didn't have the disease? (he was a programmer himself)

For the child I never was

For all that I can never have

I have to let myself in before I let you in. That's why I'm so quiet.

cell phone independence

After two years, I'm coming back to this. I think I have an idea why (and no it isn't people replying to the post on Facebook although that did help). If you want to know why you'll have to contact me privately.

Is the reason our cell phones are tied directly to particular telecoms because of the nature of the network? Something tells me the phone companies are just being greedy. This is the same industry that had a class action lawsuit filed against it for extraneous fees. Even when two companies use the same network, a given phone must be hacked to use in a different network. CELL PHONES SHOULD BE INDEPENDENT OF THE NETWORK THEY ARE USED ON. To give you an idea what it is like now: if the same were true with say printers. Dell might say you canot use any printers other than Dell printers. If you have attached a printer other than a Dell printer, we cannot help you no matter what, even if your problem is that the power button is broken on your computer. You voided your warranty by hooking up that HP printer.

Why was our government so obsessed with the stupid digital TV thing when the cell phone issue would appear to affect more people? Maybe GSM being a corporation and not a governmental entity? (3 billion is a lot of people) I figure the market might even have eventually decided that digital TV was the way to go if it really offered that much quality improvement.


Ultimately, I want to be able to use the IPhone on Sprint and the G1 on AT&T, and there should be no reason I can't do that.