This has been the worst mobile phone I've ever owned. Okay, so that is only four, in total, dating back to 1997, but still. This phone was worse -- way worse -- than my ca. 1997 mobile suitcase. (Not really suitcase sized, and small for the time, but big by today's standards, of course).

The simple answer: Use BitPIM. Yay! Except....

Except it doesn't fucking work with my setup. See below....

I thought I was gonna have to enable Bluetooth OBEX by flashing to an older or a newer, OBEX-enabled BIOS, but, no, all I have to do is use BitPim and a USB cable.

Thanks and kudos to this excellent website for helping me figure that out.
http://mark.cdmaforums.com

Doesn't Fucking Work

Mostly, I am pissed not because BitPim doesn't work, but rather that the V3C is such a shitty fucking phone. What were we thinking? In any case, BitPim almost worked using LinuxMint (equivlent to Ubuntu Gutsy) + BitPim (either from apt-get repos or from latest BitPim.org download -- I tried both). Incidentally, I tried on my Macbook, too. No dice. Finally, I did get it working, though, using Windows XP on VMWare on Linux. Whew!

However, it did not work for my wife's phone! Suck! Well, I'll try her phone on a straight up Windows computer next. It's gotta work somewhere, right?

Yes, so, the nifty little notebook that is too cool for you. But I do like little nifty notebooks. Here is my "pen holder" hack, admittedly "borrowed" from somewhere else.

So I borrowed this "lifehacker" style mod. A mod to a Moleskine? Does that sound to frickin' geeky? Too much time on my hands? Well, I definitely do NOT have any extra time these days, but this mod was very very easy.

Borrowed from here:

• http://wotnau.blogspot.com/2008/02/moleskine-pen-holder.html
• http://www.moleskinerie.com/

So, the basic idea is pretty done and done. Sheesh, Google 'Results 1 - 10 of about 13,800 for moleskine "pen holder"'. Or about 2,200 results for"moleskine pen holder". But the ones for the "Reporter Notebook" don't work for me, as I don't use that one. And I didn't want to DUCT TAPE anything to the notebook! And ones that strap a band around the notebook are no good as it adds an extra step in opening the notebook. So I modded a mod a little. Probably someone else has done it, too, but this is my version. So fuck you if you've seen it before, pretentious Moleskine user you.

Ingredients

• 1 Moleskine notebook. The small one, with an expandable pouch. I prefer the squared notebook, but that part's up to you.
• A pen
• A piece of card stock. Well, I found that "Bristol Board" weight worked well.

Steps

1. Cut card stock. One long, straight cut.
   
   Now, I used an 11X17 inch piece of card stock. But really, you just need one that you can get a 5" wide strip off of. Standard US Letter (i.e. 8.5X11) size will do, but you just won't have as much left at the end to tuck into the expandable pouch. Won't matter, though.
2. Fold card stock.
   
   Measure a 1.5" column in the middle. Right in the middle of the strip, i.e. 3/4" on each side of the middle. That's the only measurement you really need, as you can then fold the rest by eye, lining it up with the notebook. The spot in the middle becomes the pen holder area.
3. Stick it into expandable pouch.
   
   Get the folds to line up so that the pen holder part, in the middle of the card stock, sticks out off the side of the notebook. Make a flap at the other end; tuck that flap into the expandable pouch.
4. Done!
   
5. Yay!
   
   Even Oliver likes it!

See, now wasn't that the easiest mod ever? Plus it doesn't (1) harm, damage, or irreparably change the notebook, or (2) greatly increase the overall size of the notebook (i.e. still fits in pocket!). Plus you can mode the thing to another notebook when you've filled this notebook up. Because you do actually write in the Moleskine, yes? You don't just have it to look cool to the emo kids, right?