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Are you glad to see me or is that a light sabre in your pocket?

I was lying on the couch. Prone. Tired. Too tired to go to bed. When Groover leapt up and said:

“I downloaded a groovy application for my phone today I think you’ll like…”

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Bwah ha ha ha…

I’m too old for 2am bedtime

I’m old. Period.

Just sat in a Mike Walsh presentation on the future of media. Mike Walsh entitle’s himself – Managing Director of Tomorrow. And the tomorrow he sees is a world where The Naturals are under 20 and the rest of us are not older… we’re old.

[of course the old among us will be wondering if how a tv has-been ended up as a futurist but then again, we’re old]

It’s an interesting future where movies are free and content is king – although not owned. Makes me feel a little better about seeing my posts appear on aggregation blogs.

It’s the way of the future my friend.

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What I liked about his presentation – apart from his message – was the presentation itself. A mash up of video, photographs, groovy slides and sound bytes while he maintained an energetic verbal presentation clicking his remote mouse thingy without looking at the screen behind him. Impressive. The full surround sound.

We were sitting in the Marigold restaurant eating Yum Cha. You know I think the last time I had Yum Cha was in Sydney too. Twenty years ago. I’d forgotton how delicious it was. We scoffed our little gooey balls of yumminess and drank cup after cup of green tea and thoroughly embraced the future. Well. As much as one can when one is as old as I am. 🙂

At least I write a blog and I have a little share button below for you to share what you like. I might not update my myspace page or participate anymore on facebook or twitter but at least I have a passing acquaintance with the technology which I hope will allow me to “interface” with my “natural*” children.

*those born in or after 1994

Answering Machine Etiquette

The other day I rang a popular cartoonist. He was the subject of an interview and we were trying to get hold of him. His home phone just had one of those generic Telstra announcements and was continually engaged. Grrr. The time had been arranged with his publicist and it was live radio. Anyway eventually I got his mobile phone and rang it. His voicemail was simply:

Leave a message *beeep*

Not too chatty then. This did not auger well for a lively interview.

But this post is not about his interview but his answering machine message, because of course then I went on leave and had to change all my answering machine messages.

What is the perfect answering machine message?

I think there are a couple of guidelines to follow:

  1. It can’t be too long. People get frustrated having to listen to a long message and might be paying International rates.
  2. It can’t be too short. It needs to convey enough information so that the caller knows they have reached the right number, have registered that they have got an answering machine, and gives them an indication of when their message might be returned. ie: I’m not at my phone until xx date.

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  3. If a business phone, you can’t leave a funny message.
  4. You must speak clearly.

These guidelines raise more questions:

What information should you have on your message? (mobiles? email addresses?)

At the moment mine says:

Hi you’ve rung Cellobella from xxx, I’m on holidays until xxx. Any enquiries should go to xxx on xxxx xxxx. Cheers!

Should you allow your kids to do the home machine message? (Personally I’m not too keen on this)

And then of course what is the etiquette of returning phone calls?

I’m rubbish at it myself. I hate checking the machine – especially at work. I force myself to do it every day. Which is odd because I am very good at replying to emails quickly and efficiently.

I’ve solved the problem at home through accident. Our answering machine is stuffed. Oh it answers the call alright but we can’t hear your messages.

So here’s what you’ll hear if you ring the SultanaHouse:

Thanks for calling [xxxxxxxx]. If you need to get hold of us please ring our mobiles. Do not leave a message we won’t be able to hear it. The answering machine doesn’t work. Isn’t that useful. Have a good day. Bye

It occurs to me that this isn’t ideal. You waste your call. We don’t get the message. I think we’d be better off with no answering machine at all.

What does your answering machine say?

Don’t phone home, we’ll phone you!

Following Feline’s advice, I’ve bought The Orchid Hunter a new phone. It cost $199 and serves as his birthday present.

He loves it.

I took him with me to choose it – we bought it from Crazy John’s because the guy in the shop was so helpful and attentive and gave good advice I think and because Crazy John himself died this week and it was like I was wishing him well.

Bryan from Crazy John’s is leaving next week to move to Narrogin with his girlfriend. He reckons he has to move to the country to be able to afford anything, the cost of living and housing being prohibitive in Perth. It will help that for the first couple of months he’ll be staying with her folks. He doesn’t have a job there yet but has an interview next Monday. He came across to me as a sensible young man, very helpful customer service manner and I think he’d do well whatever the job was.
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His advice to me was that if my son wasn’t going to use the phone to chat a lot, to go for a prepay plan which can be carried over month-to-month. Bryan reckons cap plans which offer say $310 for $49/month develop bad habits in teenagers. His offsider agreed. She’s had a phone since the age of 7 (is that child abuse?) and finds the cap plans have led to profligate phoning.

So I bought the nice Nokia 6300 which has enough features – like a camera and bluetooth – to keep him interested – and games (crap though they are) – to encourage him to turn it on. He keeps the charger by his bed and uses the phone as an alarm clock – so hopefully it will be charged. I’ve also plugged in some useful phone numbers for him and we’re going to try the “blind call” technique for getting us to call him and hopefully keep the credit lasting a while.

Day two and he’s still carrying it around and it’s mostly turned on. I did discover he was keeping it on silent (!!!) but we’ve sorted that out now… I hope. Lets see how he goes in a month… 🙂

More mobile advice for parents of teenagers

A colleague of mine gave me some interesting advice on the mobile question

“Cellobella”, she said, “don’t buy the phone.

“You rely on three things when you do so: one, that the phone is turned on, two, that the phone is charged and three, that the child has the phone with them.

“The chances of all these things happening at the same time are virtually nil.

“Besides, if everyone in the class has a phone, he can use someone elses.”

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“The problem with getting him a phone is that then the arrangements you make become fluid. Instead of ‘I’ll meet you at the gate at 3.30 on the dot’ it becomes ‘I’ll meet you at the gate at 3.30 and will text you ten minutes before I get there’. The mobile allows plans to change and this can cause even more chaos.”

And as Feline wrote in comments, unless the phone is up-to-scratch rather than just scratched, he won’t use it anyway… That said both of Feline’s teenagers have phones. 🙂

Finally I spoke to a male colleague who told me about a phone available where you can program the phone with just 10 numbers so that it can’t be used “willy nilly”. Is that a gecko phone? I read one forum which said I would be setting my kid up to be bullied if I bought one… so maybe not…

So. I think I’ll get him a new phone on some cheap pre-pay with text plan. But who? In comments I have two “votes” for Optus and one for Virgin…