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[This message is for Dairo]
Good to hear from you again. You left me an SMS, but without anything else, no email, no contact nothing.
So yes, I am the “one”

Someone used my identity to register a celco service 8 years ago, spent over RM 360.00 and vanished into thin air.
I only knew it when I’ve got a call from debt collector last year (7 years after the incident) saying that “my number” 013-3887596 has some bad debt. I didn’t own that number.

The culprit used my name and identity, but addressed at USJ instead of my real address to register the phone.
I only managed to get the full detail of the case while attending one of the Celcom outlet, trying to register a new phone service.

So I have to make a police report and submit back to Celcom. Which I did later, they phone me that they need more documents, and an explanation of why that I have waited so long for such accused (ya, only if I know it 8 years ago).

End of the day, I just paid up and close the case. I believed the police has never bother to investigate, and the USJ address was probably fake too.

But come to think of it, what stops the celco to fake the entire record? They can simply generate such record in their database, and accuse me for owing them another few hundreds again right?
They can’t even gave me the call number that 013-3887596 has made (probably bunch of Indonesian phone number) – what ground do that have?

Weird. Since I don’t want my name to be blacklisted, and I need to register some new 3G package for my regular use, I’ve to settle.

Google search result put up a small “This site may harm your computer” remark under the link to hot.com.my.

It wasn’t a big deal since no body visiting this site anyway

But I was curios to find out why and so the adventurer started. Unfortunately, after hours of research, nothing much.
I have upgraded WordPress, removed all spam remarks, carefully examine the template codes – nothing wrong.

So I have to do the extreme by removing all innocent external links from now. Until Google is happy again.

Being one of the Apple Mac users for many years (since 1992, gosh, I am old), many would guess I would just buy the Apple iPhone without hesitation.
Nope. I don’t like to work on small devices.

I admired iPhone no doubt, but that is just not my phone yet.
My existing phone is Nokia N80 which acquired more than a year ago. That’s not my dream phone neither, not even close. Although it was one of a few phones that featuring the WiFi connectivity, but it was hardly been used – whenever I’ve access to WiFi, I’ll use my PowerBook instead.

So what is my dream phone? Rather simple, but not exist yet.
The single most important feature that I want from my phone is the ability to turn the 3G connection into a sharable, WiFi base-station – yes, a router in my phone, please.

It took quite some effort to get my 3G connection going via Bluetooth thru my PowerBook, I was wondering, why can’t I just share my 3G thru the build-in WiFi on the N80 so that I can easily connect my PowerBook with WiFi?

The question has been going for over a year, and nobody (no net) has answered.
I believed it is technically feasible to do it on my N80, someone just need to come out with the software, and a lot of hacks. I would be first in the line to pay for such software if there is one. There you go, another killer app idea.

Not all the router features are necessary, I can survive without DHCP, DNS forwarding, port forwarding etc. Just plain old NAT would do.

I would think the Linux based phone would have better chance to offer that kind of application, but given the current development status on the Linux phone hardware, I would bet on the Windows Mobile or the Symbian software developers would come out with such software sooner.

The rest of the “must-have” features are:

- making calls, sending SMS (that’s a phone, right?)
- address book and calender synchronization.

Something good to have:

- FM radio and TV tuner.
- 1 MP, good camera (my Canon 1 MP camera somehow produced much better picture quality than my N80 3 MP camera).
- voice recording.
- hand free, speaker phone (N80 does that well).
- small and light.
- color LCD display.

That’s all.

If you look at what people can do with their Linksys WRT-G router with all those open source router firmware, you’ll get what I meant.
We need a phone that is as open as the Linksys WRT-G router, then people will start bubbling up software for it – all the way down to the OS.

Well, what are you waiting for? Start hacking now.