So I did at least make a minimal update to Musical Mondays this week, even if it wasn't on Monday. As I referred to in that post, I've been busy crammin' instead of jammin' so there's been very little music happening in the studio, and even less happening in this blog.

Fear not, dear readers, for I have not forgotten you. All both of you or more.

Anna and I met me mum and sis for dinner last night. Sis is very excited about the new camera phone she got. I'm still confused by the whole camera/phone combo thing. Never in my wildest dreams would I have ever come up with the idea myself. I just can't see myself ever saying, "You know, I'm tired of sitting around waiting on a phone call. If I only had a camera, I could take some silly pictures while I'm waiting for the world's most annoying ring sound to alert me." Those telecom/wireless folks must be getting desperate to find new sales. I mean, sure, it's cool to be able to attach a picture to a caller number so that you can see the face of the person you really don't want to talk to right now. And I guess there's some geek factor involved in being able to send pictures from your phone to someone else's phone. But it's not like you're going to get something you can frame on your wall or put in your scrapbook, is it?

Maybe that's the appeal, though. A low-tech, low-cost way to improve your geek factor. Come on, if people had been sending pictures back and forth to each other with a mobile phone 10 years ago, they would have been scorned publicly while their pocket protectors were stolen and their taped-up glasses were broken yet again. But now it seems to be cool to have techno toys.

Good lord. Could it be that geek is chic?

Whoops, I've got to run. My PocketPC Phone isn't working right - somehow it doesn't recognize that I've removed the earpiece so it's not playing any sounds through its internal speaker while I'm streaming movie trailers across the wireless internet.