Day: 2 November 2008

iPhone 3G Reset

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My afternoon today was thrown for a bit of a loop when I tried to go out today and tried to play some music on my iPod. There wasn’t any. That was odd since I always have about 8gigs of music on it. I then went to sync it up again with my Macbook. That is when things got interesting. I kept getting an error saying the phone couldn’t sync and I had to reset it. I figured a quick reset and I should be good to go. Well that didn’t work either. I reset the phone and then it kept giving me an error. I couldn’t sync it, or boot it up. An Apple KB article said to reboot the computer so I did that. After about 3 more tries the phone reset and started restoring.

This is the problem with one converged device. I almost can’t go anywhere without it. It is my phone (only one except Skype until I get my blackberry from work). It is also my music player, and PDA. I am sunk if it doesn’t work. Today was a perfect example of that. 3 hours later I am back and semi running with the phone. My only lingering issue that I know of is my icon’s are all in the wrong order. I am more concerned with the fact that I don’t know if this will happen again, and I have no backup plan. I guess that is my operations mindset going. I always need a “plan B”. I am thinking about that, but for now I am just happy things turned out as well as they did. It could have been allot worse!

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Decorating

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Several months ago I went online and purchased a few prints to decorate my apartment. I have been really lazy and they have sat in the corner of my living room for ages. Last Sunday I finally hung them with my mom’s help. Now that they are up I love them as much I thought I would, but I also realize I still need more of them to make the room look great. I have been browsing on Allposters.com all weekend looking for additional prints that I like. The problem is that I find too many great items I want to buy. I used allposters when I bought the first 3 pieces and I am planning on sending them some more of my money for 2-3 more pieces this month.

I also have been looking for a site where I can make a collage of photos from digital photos and have a large poster made up that I can have framed. I finally found out that HP offers exactly what I want and they are partnered with Flickr. I can select the photos I want right from Flickr and but the poster. I am happy about that but after counting all the places I could put a big poster up in a frame with photos of my niece and nephew I realized that I don’t even have the room for what I wanted. It is good information since my mom likes making collages of photos. I will end up with smaller frames of 2-3 photos of the kids on a wall or two.

I am also trying to upgrade my kitchenware. The plates I have are over 5 years old and they are getting all chipped in my dish washer. I am trying to find something that looks good but is also affordable to replace them with.

The last few items I need to find is a bookshelf, and an end table for my couch. I need a place to throw my keys and stuff. My mom suggested I look at Chiasso. They seem to have nice stuff, but were more expensive than I thought it would be.It is looking like November is decorate month. And to think I was trying to cut back on the spending, but I do want to make my place look nice!

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