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Hello, internets, I want to tell you a little story about how technology (in combination with moominmolly) made my day better:

I have not been sleeping super awesomely lately. I have a lot on my mind, and also my cat has been noisily sick for about a week (more on that later) and I've been both worried about her and unable to sleep through it because of her noisy coughing and other alarming sounds coming from her furry little body. So, okay, I wake up early, but I'm tired, and I don't really want to get out of bed, and, oh, my room is really chilly, so burrowing under the comforter is really much more appealing.

So, naturally, I get online via my handy-dandy phone, and I leave a trail of internet crumbs, responding to people's posts here, commenting there, logging into games and playing my turn, etc. And suddenly, there's a text from moominmolly suggesting we get together for breakfast at Crema in Harvard Square! Which was motivation enough to drag myself out of bed and get moving, which was really what I wanted to do, since I wasn't going to sleep anymore. And then I got to have breakfast with a friend and catch up and have some nice, low-key social contact before wading into the day, and it was great.

The end.

Except, not the end, because what's really awesome about this is how this really wouldn't have happened without mobile devices and the lots of casual connections we have with each other by way of current technologies, and all this alarmism about how technology is getting in the way of our important social connections and people don't know how to be friends anymore is just a modern version of "you kids get off my lawn" and "in my day, nostalgia reigned". I love how easy the internet and my well-connected and convenient mobile phone make it for me to talk to people near and far is a lot of really wonderful ways. And for how it facilitates an unexpected breakfast first thing in the morning.

People who have seen me roll my eyes in aggravation at my old phone on this issue should get a kick out of this post:

My previous phone, a Motorola E815, had a feature such that it would beep every couple of minutes if I had missed a call, voicemail or text message. There were always contexts in which I found this annoying (like, when I'd heard the phone ring and simply didn't want to get up to answer it -- but it would then beep every so often until I told it to shut up. Pesky!) but, overall, it was awesome, because I'm often out of the room or in a noisy atmosphere where I don't hear a call or a text, and it's great to be reminded so I don't have to check my phone every couple of minutes myself on the off chance I've received a communication.

Well, I recently switched over to T-Mobile, and I have a new-to-me Motorola Razr, and it doesn't appear to have this feature. Does anyone know if I'm just overlooking it, or if there's an update I can load onto the phone to make it do this? It's one of the things I most miss about my old phone, amusingly.

On my former work computer, I used Trillian as an IM client, which stored chat logs in .log format. At home, I use Adium? Is there a way to get Adium to import my old Trillian chat logs?