Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up; early, caught up on E-mail from the weekend, chat with David, chewed through some patches and bugs. Amused by the continuing stream of stories of the form (as the Private Eye renders it) Spy agencies found to be spying on people who didn't know they were being spied on ... and in late breaking news: Pope is also discovered to be Catholic. - finally why anyone would want to spy on EU deliberatons - I have no idea.
Lunch; more mail churn, dug into bugs. Amazingly the Samsung Galaxy S III of my wife's seems to have bricked itself; this is despite us doing nothing exotic to it at all, whatsoever - no jail-breaking, no weird settings, no odd apps installed: nothing. Returned from Brussels - it had run out of battery, on charging it wouldn't boot. The restore UI makes it rather easy to delete all the users' data but then continues to refuse to boot: nice. Zero diagnostics / ability to put it into a boot-time / verbose debug mode. Tried to use 'kies' to flash it - wonderful intermittent failure to image, complaints about E:failed to mount /efs (Invalid argument) in the 3e system recovery; pretty irritating. OXA is the UK / multi CSC magic three letters it seems. Naturally (as you discover later) the default Samsung addressbook / calendar apps don't store the data in the cloud, and attempting to make them do that is a constant battle to fight the appointment creation app - so: Samsung Galaxy S III - one careful user, and tons of lost data. Seems like 533 pages of other people have the same deep joy. I love Samsung as a company, but this is a bit silly, particularly if the software fix has been known for six months; what's worse is if I was a phone hacker type, it seems like I'd have a backup of the EFS lying around, and not have the problem.
Worked late.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2013-07-01: Monday.