Modern life is crap

If you've been following my trials and tribulations with gadgets, gizmos and flatpack furniture you may be interested to know that I finally activated my beautiful new iPhone yesterday. It took the best part of the morning to get it working and sync all my contacts, email accounts, bookmarks, music etc.

Then, when I tried to customise my voicemail, it froze and I was forced to "restore" the original factory settings by downloading the relevant software. This took 70 minutes during which the network "timed out" and I had to start all over again. I then had to sync all my contacts, email accounts, bookmarks, music etc. (Fortunately I didn't have to re-register with O2. The phone remembered my number and account.)

Coincidentally, while all this was happening, I received an email from Brian Monteith asking me how I was getting on with my iPhone. I was only too happy to tell him. His response when, finally, I got the blasted thing working, was: "Well done.  You'll be using Lego next, ha, ha! Meanwhile, stay away from my laptop!!" Charming.