David Carrington

This is getting a bit silly now!

1. September 2008: I won a Sagem MY721X “So Ice” for emailing Ben Smith “Ben Smith is the best presenter on Mobile Industry Review”.
2. December 2008: I won a Dell Mini 9 netbook from Mobile Industry Review’s Christmas Presents competition.
3. June 2009: I won a Nokia N97 from The Really Mobile Project’s WeekOfWin competition.
4. November 2009: I won a Sonim XP3 Land Rover phone from Mobile Industry Review.
5. June 2010: I won an HTC HD2 as part of a team entering Microsoft’s MyKindOfPhone competition.
6. Yesterday (July 2010): I won a Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro from SE’s “insiders” competition.

So please, forward me any phone competitions you hear about because I really like entering them!

Funnily enough. Even though I win so many phones, it doesn’t stop me buying another every time my contract runs out:

• 2005: HTC BlueAngel
• 2007: HTC Touch
• 2008: HTC Diamond
• 2009: HTC Dream
• 2010: HTC Desire

I really ought to sell one or two of these!

1. Emailing the Vodafone CEO with your customer support query gets it resolved very quickly.
2. I’m incapable of installing Aptana with Eclipse Helios with Flash Builder 4 all together on Windows without getting Java native errors.
3. I like Google Docs Presentations.
4. I’m vaguely capable of presenting.
5. I can talk about web usability in a clear way so that even a 12 year old understands (thanks Beth for putting up with my boring talk).
6. How to cook a cheesy pasta bake – yum!
7. LOVEFiLM are rewarding customers for adding lots of films to their queues by sending them out extra disks. Unfortunately this is the last week for that.
8. There’s an official HD trailer out for the new Harry Potter, although I’ve not seen it yet.
9. When you chop up spring onions you throw away most of what you bought.

I wish I could learn more every day. That’s going onto my non-existant daily checklist. I best get that started.

Daily checklist:

• Do a good deed
• Learn something new

I’ll have to expand that! :¬)

This morning I dreamt of being in an old car. I was in the passenger while my brother drove and my dad was in the back. I have no idea what brought he following dream together:

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I’ve always been a big fan of smartphones, especially from HTC. I currently own an HTC BlueAngel, Touch, Diamond, Dream (G1), and now I’ve ordered an HTC Desire to match.

This morning I posted to Twitter:

T-Mobile want to charge me £170 to upgrade to an HTC Desire. Yet another reason I’ll probably switch to Vodafone next month.

£170 for the upgrade, on a contract that was already costing me about £30 every month? No thank you very much.

People can say what they like about Twitter but it’s great when I start getting responses like these, it makes it a great place for me:

gavinlew: speak to @vodafoneukdeals for a good deal on a htc desire – there is a nice guy called Ben who is helping me out

artesea: if you want I can get you 30% the line rental on any (standard) tariff. Makes £35 a month only £24.50

VodafoneUKdeals: We can do the Desire FREE on 18 month 300mins unlimited sms and data for £30 all in [and] artesea’s staff discount would still be available on the £30 offer saving you even more! :-) ^BH

After a quick chat with Vodafone’s Web Relation team, they knocked that £30 monthly contract down to £25 and signed me up. With any luck, artesea (Ryan Cullen) will still be OK giving me that 30% staff discount too.

Here’s a random graph I thought I’d put together just for the fun of it:

Hooray for the interweb!

Back in my first post about MW2 builds I focused a lot on the SCAR assault rifle in combination with scavenger perk. While I do still feel that’s a strong combination, I’ve found myself drifting away from scavenger and more towards OMA (One Man Army). Here’s my current builds:

Ghost: Silenced UMP45, claymores, stuns, OMA, Cold Blooded, Ninja
Loud: TAR-21 FMJ, claymores, stuns, OMA, Stopping Power,  Sitrep
Anti-air: Silenced TAR-21, stingers, smoke, Sleight of Hand, Cold Blooded, Ninja
Long: M14A1 Red Dot, claymores, stuns, OMA, Stopping Power, Sitrep
Bang: SCAR w/ nade launcher, semtex, smoke, OMA, Danger Close, Sitrep
Rush: Silenced UMP45,  semtex, smoke, OMA, Lightweight, Ninja

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