Hardcore.

I am working 11 hours today. That's 11, as in eleven, as in six more hours than I'd usually work. I'm planning to bring some work and games and such with me, hopefully it won't be 11 hours of serving people... But that's what I call hardcore, so I won't have any of you lot complaining about your work! I also have a coursework due last week to do, another coursework due next week (I think) and group project deadlines to work for - Also, another IBM assessment day in two weeks.

*That* is what I call hardcore.

Still, on a lighter note, I have a new phone! I've had two new phones in fact. The Fist of the North Star books STILL hadn't been dispatched and there was no sign of them being delivered anytime soon, so I cancelled those, sold my old phone and bought a new phone - The Philips 755. Possibly the most flawed phone in existence. The hardware is great, good camera, a touch-screen, nice-looking design... But they COMPLETELY ballsed-up the firmware. Here's a run-down of the things wrong with it:

• Not a single menu-item is in a logical place (when you go into the main menu, the primary option is 'Settings'.)
• There's a significant latency with input from the keypad.
• The camera sensor is aligned horizontally and provides no size between 640x480 and 128x160 (has a nice zoom though).
• A camera, yet no picture phonebook? wtf? (you can assign pictures to groups and groups to people, but there are only 30 groups...)
  
• Pressing the 'shift' or 'symbols' key on the on-screen keyboard results in a significant delay.
• You can't add words to the T9 dictionary (these last two making texting extremely frustrating).
• Java apps run HORRIBLY slowly, despite the quite adequate hardware.
• The Java VM handles menus extremely gayly, despite having the screen-space to handle them correctly.
• The joystick toggle is a bit shitty.

I took that back as soon as I could (mind you, had to put up with it for 4 days, as they were out of stock for the phone I wanted...) and got a Sony Ericsson T630. And wow, this is the best phone I've had in ages :) *Perfect* menu layout, lovely organiser features, bluetooth, decent Java performance (although it is still a little slow in the more modern games), fantastic looking design (you really have to see it, pictures never do it justice), perfect synchronisation with Linux/evolution using multisync and bluetooth, a good selection of default games... It's just so damn good :) I am very happy with this phone indeed :) (and if you've seen the T610 btw, it's pretty much the same phone, but with a *much* better screen, slightly smaller and slightly faster)

It's a real shame about the Philips phone though, it could've been excellent... (although I'm glad it wasn't, as I can't imagine it getting more excelleny than the T630 :))