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Videotron gave me a new phone Saturday.

As of today, it has reverted to French twice, keeps saying I have a inserted a new SD card, and has gone back to doing the "assume I have logged out of all accounts if I go underground" thing that the OS update on the old phone had finally fixed.

At least when we could float the theory that the same field that screws up my technology is what made me attractive to women I had a pleasant fiction to hold on to. :)

I will not have a working cell phone for the foreseeable future.

I am in quite desperate need of a second pair of hands. I cannot move the furniture or build my bed or desk alone, which means I can't really do anything in the new place.

No, not the Blade Runner kind.

I've had my Android phone for a few months now. It's ok, but the fact that it doesn't save passwords really kind of sucks. (I'm sure there is some good security reason for it.) The fact that I have to retype in every password I have if I go into the metro and lose signal makes it pretty useless for things like Twitter, or even email half the time.

Still, I haven't done a hard dig through the app store, so maybe there is something super neat I would like in there.

The theory has been put forth that perhaps ALL my technology has been Secretly Belgian, and this is why I have the relationship with tech that I do.

So my phone is now in German.
Not in a "Cool! i can change languages way!" but rather in a "I went to the coffee machine, looked at the phone to see if I could find out what my phone number was, and noticed that everything is now in German."

Lovely.

I returned to a house with no DSL connection. Bell refuses to come look at it until Jan 3, maybe later. As I have no laptop (due to the problem with the charging pin), I will have no internet access not stolen during visits for the next while.

My trip to LA included seeing True Grit, which was fantastic; The Expendables, which was not; and Tron, which was biblical.

I also have a crockpot, but no one took me up on the "teach me something" initiative.

Well, that external that's been rattling since it got kicked over in a modeling shoot is at the "I'm scared to try and recover from it" phase.

It was my archive, which I was planning to transfer and back up, but it has gone very slow, and is making odd rattling noises. (It's not really the "hard click" that Western Digital seemingly is famous for.) Add an occasional I/O error and I think I need to not be the one playing with this now.

So who can recommend a good data recovery company? It's probably at least worth an evaluation on this thing. I don't think there is anything I'd totally beat myself up over losing here, there is enough that it would be worth some time, effort and money to try and save.

Any suggestions on a place?

The question of no dsl actually running into the modem has been rendered moot by the fact my desktop has stopped turning on again.

Beep code indicates it is probably a motherboard issue. This is the same as was happening after the move, but that got fixed by cracking the case and re-seating everything. No such luck this time, so I suspect it is a more serious problem and all I did was buy myself some time before.

Of course, I don't get my first paycheque until the 15th, and I have 70 dollars to my name until then, so that's full of suck.

I am now seriously considering (since I don't have time to pick something by careful piecemeal) of going for one of the "we build it for you and it's on sale" bits I can find, with an eye for upgrading. Namely a decent core processor and room to add RAM. (And probably replace the case with an ANTEC when I can.)

It's not ideal, but assembling one from parts will leave me without one for much longer.

That being the case, anyone know a good deal on a machine? Remember I am Canada-bound, so US=centric places may be problematic.

I still have no internet, because the setup wizard for the speedouch modem demands a serial number that is longer than the actual serial number on the machine.

Seems important calls to the US will have to wait a while longer. As will watching the Daily Show.

Yup, what I needed was to have the left lens of my only pair of glasses pop out.

(Odd, I thought I posted something else earlier today.)