I have a fancy HTC Desire on loan from a business I do some part time work for which, as anybody knows me, is a total waste of technology as the only constructive thing I have been able to do with it so far is take a picture of my first beetroot of the summer. Touch screens and fancy “apps” are wasted on a Luddite. This morning though I glimpsed to the side of my desk to see that, if I did not know it already from my blue nose this morning, it was snowing. Having a choice of asphyxiation from paint fumes as the house is in revamp mode or hypothermia I opted for the latter last night and so awoke shivering. The development boys at HTC will understand I did not need their help to know it was freezing outside.
Anyway, the screen had fancy snowflakes cascading down like one of those snowstorm ornaments that as a kid you just wanted to smash apart to see if it still snowed although explaining the debris to my gran whose pride and joy it had been was always difficult. Even better the “snow” mounts up in the corner of the screen and I have to confess that I have spent the last twenty minutes just staring at it waiting for some enthusiastic kids and reluctant frozen parents to come out the side of the screen and start building snowmen.
Maybe there is something to this technological boom but I still cannot tear myself away from my Nokia hand held brick. So as the early snow drops down perhaps its time to hunker down like the Polar Bears safe in the knowledge that the Frozen Planet team will not be shoving cameras up my duvet for signs of new life. As for Saturdays walk from Ilkley to Grassington it may be time to rethink the shorts?
Alan Hind says
I bet you were the same when you got your first laptop….