Author: Kristian Fiskerstrand

Labor day? not for Augusto Cigars

As I mentioned in "Life is good" I bought a majority stake in a cigar importer and store. As it is labour day in Norway today, I figured it is a good way to protest the socialists. As a result of this, at the moment I'm sitting in the cigar store, smoking a Don Pepin Garcia Blue Invictos

But while I'm here, I figure I can as might as well test the camera on the phone a bit more. So I have attached a few photographs from the front / store. Obviously we also have a web shop to make it as convenient as possible to buy proper Cigars.

Granted most of the fun happens in the back room.

New gadget: BlackBerry Bold 9700

I needed better access to my emails while being on the road, so I apprehended a BlackBerry Bold 9700 - the ultimate business phone. Or so I thought, at least, but the jury is still out.

I got my new device yesterday, but today I was suddenly faced with a "JVM error 517". This is a reference to the java virtual machine, and the error code means " JVM Error 517: The BlackBerry Device Software encountered unexpected data in a memory location which is used for normal operations".  I have no idea why I got this error, within 24 hours of starting to use the phone, and hopefully it was a result of enabling encryption, and some FS corruption - and not an indication of some deeper hardware issue.

Anyways, this is apparently an unrecoverable state, so I went ahead and flashed the device following the steps of an online guide . As I haven't connected the device to my laptop yet, and made a backup , and due to the state of the device I was unable to recover the data on the device. But since I just got it yesterday, that simply means having to re-enter a bunch of phone numbers , so no major loss.

At least the phone seems to be back up and running