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10/24/2001 Archived Entry: "Coolhunters"

Watched Coolhunters on TV tonight, along with all of the other No Logo Naomi Klein addicts who don't go to Starbucks any more. It was refreshingly and unsurprisingly free of substantive content but was entertaining nonetheless. Didn't really have much 'hunting of cool' going on, it was more about how you should design weird and wonderful trainers (or sneakers, as the narrator was at pains to point out). It accompanies BBC2's other series, Logo, quite well.

I'm currently stuck in the limbo of mobile phone services right now. While I would like nothing better than to switch over to Orange, which I can do at any point since my 12 month contract period has expired and I've wrested my Porting Authorisation Code from Vodafone with no small amount of blood, sweat and tears, the sad fact is that Orange has bugger all phones. Aside from the standard and utterly dull 3330/6210/8210 Nokias, they have very little else worth buying. On the other hand, Vodafone and Cellnet are enticing me with their offers of the very latest Ericsson and Nokia mobiles, curse their bewitching ways!

I only have two real choices:

1) Go with Orange now and get one of the rubbish, obsolete phones
2) Stay with Vodafone, get a beautiful multifunction new phone and remain in purgatory with my Orange-loving friends with whom I will never talk with for another year

Then again, I could just:

3) Keep on waiting until Orange realise that their market share will slowly but surely be eroded away when consumers get irritated by the utter lack of new phones, and release some new ones.