This is a Sharp ZQ-770 pocket organiser, or if you’re in the US I think they were marketed as the Sharp ‘Wizard OZ series’. I have no idea how many people will actually be familiar with this device. But I owned one of these for many years and thought it was great. It was around before Tablets, iPhones or even touchscreen PDAs. For £70 (at least that’s what I paid) you could get a mini computer that ran off 2AA batteries.
I recently bought a ‘Samba’ SIM card for £1. Samba is mobile internet provider that gives you free internet access in exchange for watching adverts online It arrived today and I wanted to test it out, I knew my laptop had a SIM card slot but only now did I realise I had no idea where it was. The green part in the image is the SIM card. To access it the battery needs removing then a little plastic tab lifting up.
If you didn’t buy the laptop with a 3g WAN card, you’ll still need to do that. You’ll know if you have one or not as if not there will be a space next to the standard WiFi card where you can insert a PCI-e 3g card.
Last week my HTC Mozart decided that when making a call, it would turn off the screen. Not just when you put it against your ear like it should, but immediately and irreversible after hitting call. This meant that any automated phone services, ‘Press 1 to do this’, were unusable and hanging up consisted of removing the battery. Luckily, it was still in warranty so I thought I’d send it off to o2 to get it fixed.
So, this happened today 
This is a WordPress blog running the meeta theme. Above is how this website looked when I installed this theme yesterday (very early this morning actually). To further my dissertation procrastination, I thought I’d briefly write on WordPress theme modification.
View from Cartmel College Lancaster University
The view from my window in Cartmel College at Lancaster University. Admittidly this was taken in summer, not today as currently all the trees are bare and it doesn’t look nearly as nice.
I decided that the sidebar in WordPress looked horrible. So, I’ve updated my site with a new theme. I was using a theme called Custom Community by themekraft but I’ve now moved to one by wpzoom, Meeta. I still want to add (probably tomorrow as it’s now past 3am) a search box in the top menu and next/previous post links on all post pages.
Now I’m off to bed. I have a 9am lecture.
Edit(31/01): Search button now added to top nav bar, with search button style changed to match theme too.
EDIT: Next/Previous links now done 
The laptop I use day to day is a Lenovo x121e. It’s a nice comprimise between a netbook-like form factor but laptop grade power. It has the same size and resolution screen as a MacBook air so I usually use it coupled with my 22″ external monitor. As good as it is, I’ve been noticing a problem with it recently.
