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What started as an awareness raising and ethnographic styled walk through Sierra Leone, this site now details the encounters of a not so academic academic who spends more time occupying Wall Street and squats than a university...

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Electronics

So let me just say one thing first: I hate electronics.  There are some things that 'men' are supposed just love, cars, gadgets, electonics, whatever.  Well I am obviously not one of those guys.  I hate all of them!!  lol.  I do like building things though, not sure that matters...  Anyway, I can't figure out all these electronics devises for the life of me.  I'm a thinker, I'm a project manager, but I'm not a techy...  :-/ 

Right now I have a wonderful netbook, a 'smart' phone, and this incredible little waterproof flexible keyboard.  What I am trying to do is to figure out how to get them all to work together using Bluetooth wireless technology.  Theoretically I should be able to sync everything together with no wires.  Theoretically... 

Amazingly, when I first started setting things up it seemed that I had things better than I do now, even though I don't think I've even changed anything.  The computer makes sense to me, nothing new here really.  But I'm trying to connect my phone (Nokia N97 mini) with the computer.  They recognize each other and I've now got them 'paired', but I still can't transfer anything between the two.  Seems I need the 'driver' for it, but it searches for it online and installs it, yet then doesn't work.  I am also trying to get the computer to connect to the keyboard, but I can't get it 'paired' so I don't have to install it each time (not gonna be desirable if in the woods with limited internet access). 

The worst things about all of this is the stupid phone!!  Not that there's anything wrong with the phone itself - I'm sure its more user error than product error - but I just am not interested in spending so much time trying to configure things over and over again.  I set up Facebook and it worked Friday, and then not yesterday, and now does today?  My email is set up, and loaded everything/was working Friday, but now nothing loads as of yesterday.  I set up the wifi to work and despite being connected, it isn't always working even though it says it is connected.  The keyboard won't connect either.  I still seem to need that pairing number.  I thought of something new to try but now the phone doesn't even seem to be able to find the keyboard.  I just don't get it.

Why aren't these things simple!?  lol.  Its amazing that as all these things that are invented to make our lives "more simple", the more complicated life becomes, and its not like I'm so old that this technology is beyond my generation.  Am I supposed to spend so much time working on this, contacting, and paying for professionals to make my life easier?  It seems the more I try to get these things to work, the further away I seem to get... 

Guess I'm gonna have to start reading the instruction manuals... ;)   lol...  :)   ahahahahahaha...

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