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Put a new face on Zeropaid… will follow with some more fixes too like the disgusting sidebar on internal pages. Yuk

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Wow, what a couple of days. If you know you know, if not suffice to say life is a roller coaster. The choices in front of us never seem clear until they are behind us, and then we are either kicking ourselves or… I guess everyone wants to be happy, but maybe they should give us a manual or at least show us the previews.

I think the hardest thing is to turn your back on things you are comfortable with when you know they are wrong for your life. You know it is the right decision and the right thing to do but at the same time it hurts as you lose those things you are so familiar with, that feel so safe. I have done it many times and later on has never seemed like the wrong thing to do, but EVERY TIME it felt like I was dying, which makes me feel better that this time may be no different. Feels different though.

It is definitely a troubling time, and others are going through much harder things than I. Helps to put things in perspective, but I hate that the only thing that cheers me up is that it could be worse.

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Finally got my sidekick battery… the one I ordered off ebay, not the one from T-Mobile. Finally powered it up with my sim card, but was prompted to enter some other guy’s password. There is no option to reset it, so I spent another 20 minutes on hold with T-mobile.

Sidenote: It is REALLY funny when a T-Mobile customer service rep doesn’t understand what you said. This lady was asking me what my phone number was (after I had entered it through the automated system - DUH) and she couldn’t understand me because of my shitty cell reception in my house. She kept having me repeat myself and kept getting it wrong, but she would never say it was because of a bad connection. She would say “spoeak up sir I cannot hear you” even though I was yelling directly into the microphone. I guess they aren’t allowed to say that T-Mobile service is ever anything less than perfect.

Anyways, I finally got on with a Sidekick tech, and she had me do some interesting secret Sidekick reset commands. To reset the thing, I took out my sim card and rebooted the phone. When it is fully rebooted, press @-1-0 all at the same time and hold them down. Your phone will reboot, keep holding them until you see the 4 icons, then release. Your phone will reboot again, and it will be like new. I am not sure if this will work without a customer service rep, they may have to some initializing with your serial number. At any rate, at this point my phone was as ne, telling me to wait up to 2 hours for activation. To get past this screen, hold menu + L

Hope this helps someone.

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This one is hilarious… famous UK guerilla artist Banksy has pranked Paris, and good. Apparently he replaced hundreds of her albums in UK stores with his own version, complete with topless photos and his own remixes of her songs including Why am I famous?, What have I done?, and What am I for?

He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog’s head.

A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK.

She told the BBC News website: “He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in.”

But he left the original barcode so people could buy the CD without realising it had been interfered with.

Banksy is notorious for his secretive and subversive stunts such as sneaking doctored versions of classic paintings into major art galleries.

His spokeswoman said he had tampered with the CDs in branches of HMV and Virgin as well as independent record stores.

He visited cities including Bristol, Brighton, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and London, she added.

A spokesman for HMV said the chain had recovered seven CDs from two Brighton shops but was unaware that other locations were affected.

Artistic leeway

No customers had complained or returned a doctored version, he said.

“It’s not the type of behaviour you’d want to see happening very often,” he said.

“I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic engagement.

“Often people might have a view on something but feel they can’t always express it, but it’s down to the likes of Banksy to say often what people think about things.

“And it might be that there will be some people who agree with his views on the Paris Hilton album.”

A spokesman for Virgin Megastores said staff were searching for affected CDs but it was proving hard to find them all.

“I have to take my hat off - it’s a very good stunt,” he added.

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So a while back my sidekick 3 broke, and I went through a bunch of nonsense to return the phone. The rep on the phone said to take “just the phone, not the charger or any accessories” to a UPS store and they would send it to T-Mobile. So I suck it up, take the thing in and send it back. 10 days later I get a sidekick with no battery and no battery cover.

So I call T-Mobile and they say I was supposed to just send the phone, not the battery or the cover. So I spend an hour or so talking to the rep and explaining that if someone had told me that, I would have happily removed the battery and cover before sending it back. So after an hour he tells me he can send me a battery in 10 days. No cover. I explain how worthless that would be, but he says thats all he can do. I call around to a bunch of third party T-Mobile stores and no one stocks SK3 batteries yet. Great. So I go back to the store I took my broken phone to in the first place, and he tells me he doesnt have any batteries but he miraculously comes up with a cover. So now I am waiting on my new battery, but I got sick of waiting so I bought one on ebay….. which is now 4 days late in arriving. Maybe I am just not meant to have the phone i want.

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Put up a new theme today, what do you think???

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