online hook-up via your celphone

after a series of exasperating false starts and glitches, i finally to managed to set things up and now i'm surfing online via my mobile phone (thanks to technical support from smart wireless center)). no, this service isn't new. (it's basically a dial-up function that uses your phone's modem to connect to smart's GSM network). a few of my officemates have been doing this for a few months now. and if i hadn't been so stubborn i could have set this up earlier.

part of the problem is that the mobile phone i'm using is a sony-ericsson, which unfortunately isn't as user-friendly as a nokia unit. even the smart technician who was assisting me was uttering a few mild oaths before he finally worked things out. heheh

another downer for this set-up is that it's nowhere hear the speed of dsl or wi-fi (*groan*); this becomes even more obvious when you try to access graphics-heavy and ads-filled sites. one time i took a bathroom break and when i came back the page was still loading up. hmm… i guess, it'll do, particularly this holy week when everything seems to slow down at a snail's pace.

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it looks like hayao miyazaki's next project will be a film called Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo On A Cliff). This is according to a recent announcement from Studio Ghibli. The anime feature, which is scheduled to hit Japanese theaters in summer 2008, will revolve around the goldfish Ponyo (a princess) who yearns to become human and Sosuke, a 5-year-old boy.
 
It is said that Ponyo is modelled after the old images of Miyazaki's son (Goro Miyazaki), who directed Tales of Earthsea, an anime movie based on the 3rd book of the Earthsea saga written by the well-known fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin.