Technology Mishaps

Technology is great...especially living so far away...when it works properly! In the last week my iphone "locked" erasing all of my contacts, calendars and so on. When we arrived in Dubai we had to have our phones "unlocked" as they were purchased in the US. The iphone is locked by Att&t to only be used on their network. So here you have to have it "unlocked" in order to use it with the local carrier. The same went for Chris' blackberry. In the 9 months that we have been here we have discovered that many things are not compatible. For example, the electrical outlets are all European standard outlets so we have either had to buy new electrical items or buy converters because the wattage is all different. Also, the TV's that are made for the US are made for a different signal than elsewhere so our picture is not as good. From what I have heard if you purchase a cell phone here, it will never work in the US because again it is on a different signal.

Also this week, our lap top crashed. It had been running really slow and "acting up" but was still usable until this week. Luckily, we just purchased an external hard drive so we were able to back up all of the pictures and other stuff that was on the computer before it crashed. We have a desk top computer with us so still have access to email and the internet but unfortunately the lap top is what we use for Skype and pictures so it has definitely slowed down our weekly Skype chats, picture sharing and blogging! Hopefully we will be back up and running soon!