Someone was trying to send me an sms all afternoon. I need to delete a message to fit it, but I don't want to. It's been ages since I cleaned the messages out of my phone.

My phone rang, it was the guy I've done plastering for before. Someone he knows buggered up their computer, and they want to know if I will fix it. I told him that I could, and my price. He said he would let them know.

I decided to find my phone adapter, and my old phone (since nokia data suite doesn't work with this one). I found the adapter, half the wires from the serial port connector had come off.

I dug out the circuit diagrams, worked out where they came from, resoldered it, I noticed the connector to the phone was coming undone too, so I was just fixing that when my phone rang.

It was my mate I go to dinner with called me, he wanted to know if the computer was fixed, yes, I sent you an SMS back about that. we chatted for a while.

I finished soldering the adapter, plugged it in, and the LED wouldn't go on.

I had another look, couldn't see anything wrong.

I ended up wasting about 2 hours on it.

I gave up in the end, it just would not work, I don't know what's wrong. The LED at least should go on.

I found the proper adapter for the phone I use all the time, plugged it in, and as expected it didn't work with nokia data suite (didn't think so).

I reinstalled logomanager, and tried to use that, but it doesn't do anything with messages. I backed up my phonebook.

I googled around, found some new phone software, that's supposed to support a bunch of phones, and have lots of functions.

I downloaded a trial, it should be enough to back up my phone, and my messages.

I pulled the messages out, cleaned it all up.

I couldn't find how to import my old messages from nokia data suite, there probably isn't a way. oh well.

All in all I wasted about 4 hours mucking around with my phone.

No one rang me to tell me if anything was going on tonight.

I watched a bit of tv.

I ended up having dinner about 10.30.

While I was waiting for it to cook, my mate I go to dinner with rang me again, he wanted to know if there was anyway to get the sat tv working, even temporarily. It's not likely, with the timing changes they've made, I don't think it would work across dialup.

I suppose I could waste some time trying though, I've got a decoder with one of my interfaces in it sitting here doing nothing.

I browsed the web a bit, ate dinner.

I'm just about to put Blade Runner on, and have a few drinks.