Mobiles!

I found out the other day that 9 months into a Vodafone account, you can alter your contract and reduce the price of it. Considering that I pay £35 a month for a crazy amount of texts and talk-time, it was a no-brainer to decide to ‘downgrade’ the account.

I phoned Vodafone earlier to change the contract to £30 a month, with the idea being that I do the same in a months time to £25, then in another month to £20. Aside from the fact I’m doing this to save me money, there are other motives behind the decision.

With the contract cheaper, I figured I could then sign up for Vodafone’s “Unlimited Internet & Email” for £7.50 a month. While not strictly unlimited (500MB limit), it turns out to be more than enough for what I will use it for (footy scores, facebook, etc…) and as the price of the contract comes down monthly, it all becomes cheaper and cheaper.

But then the other reason for doing this has come to the fore in the past few days. The iphone! I remember seeing the original iPhone’s release last year and laughing at how underspecced it all was for the money. Since then, they released the 3G version, and while it is still underspecced compared to my N95, what it does do has seduced me!

My mate Vijay has an iPhone, he uses it mainly for music (other than calls) but recently added the Facebook ‘app’ to his phone giving him almost complete functionality of the website compared to the Mobile version that you get on all other phones. Then of course Alan blogs about the many features that can be added to the phone. Such as the wordpress app which adds a functionality to blog wherever and whenever you are and an app to map your pictures – using GPS – lots of little things that I had no idea the iPhone did, until the internet – and these guys – told me so.

So of course the idea is to wait until around November, pay off the remaining months of a contract that is down to £20 a month and port my number over to 02. It’s a plan that will leave me enough time to change my mind, should I hanker after the fantastical new Sony Ericcson c905 or the new Samsung phone when they arrive, but the functionality of the iPhone has won me over and come the end of the year that’ll be my phone of choice.

Summer games

There’s never any relaxing in football, players and managers may go on their holidays but football never really leaves the back pages. I’m just waiting for the day when the transfer window closes, when all of this bollocks regarding Cristiano Ronaldo can be put to bed, and hopefully Forest will have a strong enough squad to compete in the championship.

There’s been no non-activity this summer, and while there have been a few departures it hasn’t been major – Agogo excepted. I’m just looking forward to have something to listen to while i’m at work on saturdays. Classic Gold blaring out over the speakers at work just isn’t doing it for me!

I think with our signings this summer, and a comparison with the team we had when we went down (Impey, Powell, Rogers!) it shouldn’t be beyond us to stay up, which is all I want in our first season back in the championship. It’s embarrassing to hear from players talking about a second successive promotion. Nathan Tyson was spot on when he said the other week that championship survival is first priority, and anything else is a bonus. I expect most sensible fans won’t be taken in by players, and former players, claims that we can do piss all over this league and go up again. Surely we’ve learnt something from these last few years? Like keeping your expectations in check?

However, if we’re in the top three come November I’ll probably get carried away with all the excitement.

I watched the ’summer game’ yesterday, a cricket match. Only my second ever. It was good, purely because it’s the shorter version of the game. Still, it may be shorter, but it was still 6 hours or so! Notts won, so it was well worth the ticket price… (which was free)

PS3 Update 2.41

Sony have finally let me update my PS3. After trying – and failing – to get my PS3 up to scratch over the last week, I’ve now at last been able to update my console.

This update brought about the much talked about ‘in game XMB’, meaning the screen you get when you turn on the PS3 is now available in-game. And they’ve also added another Xbox 360 style feature with ‘Trophies’.

Working in much the same way as gamerpoints, it now gives added incentive to complete, or even buy, games. Nice to see Sony have brought these features in, at last! The reason for the delay in me getting this update was that the original 2.40 one apparently started bricking consoles.

So, Sony saved me from a fate worse than death and didn’t let download 2.40, instead waiting a few days more for the refined update. Hurrah!

2.40/2.41 info

“Cole lights Forest’s fire”

There is never any rest for the football season. Once it’s all over in May, we have a summer full of transfer talk. Abated only when we actually sign players.

Over the past few years, we Forest fans have got used to not being so active in the transfer market. Colin Calderwood’s view that the squad he had was good enough for promotion did in fact turn out to be true, but even he realised work must be done to get the squad to Championship standards.

He hasn’t messed about, hot on the heels of Rob Earnshaw’s arrival at Forest, we had Liverpool loanee Paul Anderson – who helped get Swansea promoted last year. Just last week we bought a french defensive midfielder called Guy Moussi – who’s first name is actually pronounced Ghee! – and now we’ve done better than the last three and signed up former ManYoo forward Andy Cole.

He’s in the twilight of his career, but that isn’t to say he’ll be useless. He’ll either help the forwards we have here already and chip in with a goal or two – or it’ll go the way of a certain Mr Neil Lennon, who lasted half a season before buggering off to Wycombe Wanderers!

I happen to think he’ll do well, he scored consistently for Burnley in the Championship last year, I’m confident enough he’ll do the same here.

Now, since Kris Commons left the City Ground for Derby last month, I’ve not really had an opinion one way or another. He was offered a better deal and would’ve been a fool not to take it as it would’ve set him up financially. 

Well, the inner Forest fan has surfaced, and I’ve changed my mind. The guy constantly moaned about hating League One, how he wanted to lead Forest into the championship and maybe higher, well you did Kris – did we not get promoted last year, did that not do it for you?

He claims to support Forest, word is he never did. One of the glory supporters who was frequently seen in a ManYoo top as a kid. Of course hailing from Notts he played on the ‘local boy comes home’ angle when he signed and didn’t discourage the notion that he was a forest fan.

When he finally fucked off to Derby, he said he understood the rivalry between the two clubs but it didn’t bother him. As a proper Forest fan he blatantly didn’t, but as a non-Forest fan obviously a move down the A52 was never going to have any repercussions for him. 

And then this week, he’s pictured on the Derby official website advertising their new home top. Twat. I hope Guy Moussi breaks his leg when we play Derby, then as he’s being carried off the pitch on the stretcher I hope one of Forest’s medical staff comically drops the stretcher so he falls onto his broken leg. Then to top it all off, maybe Wes Morgan can kick him in the bollocks.

I intended to be all civil about Kris, but not any more. Fuck off Kris Commons you sheep-shagging bastard.