Got myself a used Nokia e61 while in Kuala Lumpur a couple of weeks back. Original idea was to get a second phone that supports UMTS for use in Japan. This thing comes with that, quadband GSM and also wifi, and I’ve found the keypad to be absolutely comfy enough to type long emails or to email to my blog engine. That bypasses the censorship the chinese govt has put onto my website.
What I would do is to type out my email, with the subject as the blog title and keep it in the outbox till a wifi access point is near, and send it off to be posted. And the best thing about it is i can do it anywhere!
In order to expand my creative options, started to expand my nikon flash system with the purchase of a second SB800 in singapore from a guy through an advertisement on Clubsnap forums.
Then, to complement the macro system I have been building up, i got myself an R1 system when passing through Kuala Lumpur. Was told its the last unit in Nikon Malaysia. Funny thing is that when you look at whats inside the big R1 or R1C1 box, there’s nothing much inside. Most of the space is taken up by a large storage box/bag. The SB-R200 unit themselves look a little less convincingly built than the 800s, but works.
Wish i could say I’ve spent a lot of time with whats available to now, but was down with flu once I got back to Shanghai, so thats a story for a future post.
Vaja cases make some of the best leather PDA cases out there. I was using one for my Sony Clie NR70V, and just recently I ordered another custom case for my “new” Clie TH55 which I bought from Akiba in Tokyo. I did find a case in one of the BIC cameras in Tokyo, but after getting used to a previous vaja, it was difficult to use anything else. Most cases don’t fit well, leather smells of petrol, and looks bulky.
This current order from vaja will take 10 days to ship, since its custom made, and probably another week or two to reach me here in Shanghai. I have done the same shipment to Shanghai 7 years ago for my first Clie, so there shouldn’t be a problem. Shipping adds another 20% to the total price.
Can’t wait for it to arrive in a month’s time!
I’m still having problem accessing my own website, FTP, HTTP, anything so have been finding it quite difficult to keep it updated. The only way I can blog now is to either use my office connection (uses an overseas proxy) or blogging by email. Will sort that part out. A trace of the path to the server shows the packet getting blocked after 1-2 hops and nothing comes back after that. I doubt an email or phone call to whoever is blocking this connection will help. Only way is to get a fixed IP address from my ISP or to switch ISP. Anyways…
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Bought a Wii today after several weeks of thinking and computing. The only ones available here in Shanghai (at least in volumes) is the Japanese version, so everything will be in Japanese, including the 110V power supply. Bought it together with an extra controller (for the wife, but after buying it looks like she has about zero interest in anything “not serious” at all…) for a total of 2300RMB including 2 games (not original!) and a 110-240V power supply. Not too bad a deal. Apparently the unit is also modded with a WiiKey chip to play games from all regions as well. No way to verify that for sure.
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