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Over the past two weeks or so, I’ve gone to every cell phone provider’s website to check out both what  phones and plans are on offer. I keep finding myself getting caught up in wanting to get a higher end phone with more and more features, but then I get frustrated. If I am going to go that route, then I want it to be with an iPhone, no some other crappy phone that I am going to regret as soon as the iPhone is announced. After having gone for a swim with my phone, I’ve learned the importance of having the ability to back up your phone book. Doing so is easy with a GSM phone because you can store all that infomation on th SIM card and just bring it from phone to phone.

While I still haven’t decided on a phone or a plan yet, I have decided that my new phone will be of the GSM sort, which in Canada means I’ll be on either Rogers or Fido. I guess it’s time to go cancel my old Bell Mobility plan.

Last March, my cell phone contract with Bell Mobility finally expired. I’d been looking forward to getting a new cellphone, but then Apple announced the iPhone, so I decided to wait. And while it hasn’t been officially announced in Canada yet, I am hopeful that it will be soon.

So, while I wait, I’ve continued to use my Samsung SPH-A660.

A few weeks ago, in the middle of Vancouver’s first heat wave of the summer, Crystal and I decided to go for a swim.  We rode our bikes along the sea wall and went for a dip at Third Beach in Stanley Park. Unfortunately, I forgot my cell phone in my pocket. :( After drying it out for nearly a week, I successfully managed to turn it on and give it a try. I did manage to get it to boot up, and made a few short calls with it to test it out, but it just isn’t the same anymore - it likes to randomly shut off, rendering it practically useless.

That’s life.

Now I really need a new phone, but I have a dilemma - do I bite the bullet and get a new phone, go phone-less until the iPhone comes to Canada, or try to find a used replacement that I can use on the Bell Mobility network?

So, my old site was getting very tired and to be honest, I was very bored with it. Other than adding a few little things like links and the roll up the rim to win counter, very little had changed since first launching the site in December 2003.

The old site used Movable Type as the blogging engine. However, after hearing many great things and an abundance of excellent free themes, I’ve made the move to Wordpress. It’s going to be a work in progress for a little while, but I hope you like the new site and what it will eventually become. Any comments are always appreciated.