Mobile phone

Posted on 6 September 2018 by pws

The first ever mobile phone I had was this one:

It’s the Sony CM-R111 analogue phone.

I got it for free when I bought a bulk order of floppy disks. Of course, the contract, which was with Securicor (now included in O2) was not free.

It was a very small phone with no display, as you can see, ten number memory (I think) and a good battery life.

But, on the way home one day I had a phone call. Did you call so-and-so plumbers?, I was asked. No, said I. No, we thought not. Your phone has been hacked and you need to move over to digital. Which I did.

It was a super little phone, not much bigger that a box of matches.

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Facebook

Posted on 3 September 2018 by pws

I used to be on Facebook. Actually, initially I was on MySpace, which I think is still going in some form or other. There were some people there that I found who had similar interests to me, and we had some good chats, but then people left for FB.

I joined, to find out what it was all about, then did nothing for some years. Gradually, even my most die hard anti-technology friends joined.

I posted some holiday photos, interesting links and little else. I did comment on other people’s stuff occasionally, always positively.

But, you know what, it’s boring. The people who are real friends, people I care about, I am in contact with by other means too.

So I decided to deactivate my account. Not completely delete it, because there could be reasons why I may need to recover it in the future, but I am gone.

I gradually removed friends, knocked off 50 or so, no-one noticed. My account has been gone for a month, no-one has noticed.

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The dance of reality

Posted on 30 August 2018 by pws

There are some strange films out there: The dance of reality.

Here is a clip: https://xhamster.com/videos/opera-stage-piss-8926834

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