Perks galore

Nokia 7210, Sony Ericsson T310, Siemens S55

Today I had my first meeting. Actually, I had three meetings today, one of them with a partner of NRK. Some of these guys spell “style” first thing in the morning. The way they talk, the way they dress, the way they walk. Everything. I haven’t decided yet if this is good or bad. Not that matters anyway. I just have to make sure that I’m not ending up like that if I decide it’s a bad thing.

Working with WAP has its advantages when it comes to the access to gadgets. Major mobile phone manufacturers, like Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Siemens feed my apartment with the latest of their latest models to make sure that the WAP site works all right on their phones. Which means that I have all the good stuff within reach. And no one told me that I couldn’t grab one of the phones and use as my personal phone while I’m working there. Today I took three models with me, the Nokia 7210, the Sony Ericsson T310 and the Siemens S55. All high-tech, state of the art phones. But it looks like I’m no high-tech lovin’ guy when it comes to mobile phones. All the models are crammed with crap I really don’t need. Polyphonic ringing tones, MMS, tons of games, and other things that I’ll never use anyway. So after about half an hour of fumbling around with the phones, I went back to my trusty old Nokia 3310. Not the best phone in the world, but it does what I need it to do, make phone calls and send SMS messages. Fear not - there is still a good pile of other phones for me to test. I’m already looking forward to work tomorrow. Envy me, geeks!

It’s not that late yet, but I’m still a little tired. I’m sleeping in a room which is unfortunately in the path of the sun at around 5:30 in the morning. This, in turn, results in me waking up, and this morning I had a hard time going back to sleep. Solution: Rotate the house. Or I can at least request that the land lady - who I suspect is not that fond of having me here - makes a fair try at it.

Before I go to bed tonight, I have to make myself some lunch to bring to work tomorrow. They have a large and well assorted canteen, but it was damn expensive to eat there.


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