I’ve written about my random urges before. It seems that Randall Munroe has had similar thoughts. He’s expressed them in today’s xkcd:

There is an unchanging, silent life within every man that none knows but himself.

from “Home Sickness”

When I woke up the next morning, I was surprised. I was shocked that the world could continue, that I could wake up as I did every morning. I didn’t wake up and think that the day before was a dream, or any of that crap; I was too acutely aware of what had happened.
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There was a disturbing ordinariness about everything. How could such a terrible thing happen and the world just go on? Everything should stop and wait until it had everything figured out before everything started up again.
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The world had a hole torn in it yesterday, but today it would go on as normal. Maybe it was too used to these sorts of things. To me, the world wasn’t unhappy enough. I was afraid that I wasn’t unhappy enough.

from “As Simple As Snow” by Gregory Galloway

When I first got the Sony Ericsson c905a, I debranded it to enable its WiFi capabilities that had been disabled by AT&T. I did this because I don’t want to pay for a data plan, but I do want to be able to access the internet from my phone when WiFi is available.

Working with the default browser was a little clunky and I soon found Opera Mini as a popular alternative mobile browser. I downloaded it and tried to install it, but I kept getting prompted about what internet connection to use. Since I didn’t have a data plan, it didn’t know what to do. I tried fiddling with settings here and there, but nothing worked. I gave up after finding no help from Google and used the default browser for the next 3 months.

Today, I decided to search again. While I didn’t find someone addressing my exact problem, one of the search results was able to lead me to try something new. I entered fake information for a data plan.

This also allows me to watch videos using the YouTube app, which I previously was unable to do.

I guess the default browser is smart enough to know to use the WiFi when a data connection isn’t available, but installed apps aren’t. With these fake settings, they try to access the internet via the nonexistent data account and fail before resorting to the WiFi.

These are the steps I took:

1. Go to Menu->Settings->Connectivity->Internet Settings->Connect Using
2. Click “Add”
3. Select “PS Data”
4. Enter anything for the Name. I called it “No Data”
5. Click “Save” (leave APN blank)
6. Select your newly created data account and it’s good to go!

There is some facebook thing going on where girls post what color bra they are wearing to raise breast cancer awareness.

I think we are all aware that breast cancer exists. I don’t see how telling the world what color bra you are wearing helps the cause.

Anyway, I was reading through my facebook feed and saw this:

• Girl 1: pink
• Girl 2: purple
• Girl 3: pink polka dots!!!
• Girl 4: Snake skin!
• Girl 5: TACO BELL!!!

It took me a minute to figure out that the last friend in this list wasn’t participating, she was just excited about Taco Bell.