Grahame's LJ - iPhone activation

12:13 am - iPhone activation

Navi Mumbai

Woke up this morning and toodled out to update my iPhone to the new software. Not that much of a fuss to get it, but I had been looking forward to it for a while. Anyway, down it came and onto the phone it went. Half-way through the installation the power went out (not that uncommon in Mumbai), but that was okay as the laptop battery was charged. Anyway, update completed and the phone booted, and insisted on being re-activated via iTunes. Which requires a working network connection.. and the power was off.

This is the one thing about the iPhone that really bugs me. It was okay in this case, as the power came back on and I could activate, but the iPhone will also demand to be re-activated if it is turned off and on and hasn't been activated for a certain period. As you might not reboot your iPhone for weeks, this tends to happen to me when I go to the movies or a play or something, turn off the phone, then turn it back on to find it's decided to brick itself.

Pretty inconvenient, particularly if you travel!

Grr, argh, and so forth!

Corridor dogs, Navi Mumbai

The building we're in has a fair few dogs in it most of the time, was there quite late tonight and even more had come in. Took this opportunity to snap a shot of two of the cuter ones, looks like a bitch and her pup.

And I'll leave you with this. India makes the most scary warning signs!


People in the office here are clearly a-feared I'm in danger of starving, for they keep getting me massive lunches delivered. I think I'm going to pine for the food here when I go back, it's such so fantastic. Quite a lot of vegetarians in the office, and I've got some neat tips for when I try to replicate things at home. Feel like I'm toughening up a bit for spice too, managed to liberally dip samosas in a green chilli sauce yesterday without embarrassingly running screaming in search of water.

Have taken lots of photos, many disappointing. Light is a problem when trying to take outside photos, as is the often murky visibility. I think some fancy filters would help, going to go outside and try to take better shots tomorrow. There's lots of interesting fishing vessels on the water to be photographed!