Invasion of the Diddiphone

January 20th, 2004 - 20:49 | 6 comments

This is going to sound really, really strange: I’ve been having a computer problem for months now, but am in denial about it. Perhaps 75% of the time I copy and paste anything, pasting reveals…well…a little picture of a phone, like so: . Am I going crazy?! Re-copying and pasting gets rid of it, and it doesn’t happen when I’m just copying text around in Notepad: presumably it can only work in image-capable programs. There’s nothing weird in my startup and I’ve have checked for viruses etc…I imagine it’s a program conflict in some way, but I can’t figure it out. I suppose I could close each program one by one to narrow it down, but it doesn’t always happen anyway. [Whimpers]. Help.

I’ve just noticed that “selected” and “rejected” use the same keys in T9…I wonder what problems that’s caused. “You asked whether dessert should consist of jelly or dynamite monkey…We’ve selected the latter. Please supply.”

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6 Responses to “Invasion of the Diddiphone”

1 Ben Jan 21st, 2004 at 10:00 am

Only thing that springs to mind is the bluetooth software…maybe you could try disabling it and see if it still happens?

What if some lazy coder was using the clipboard to push icons around, maybe…?
2 Andrew Jan 21st, 2004 at 10:47 am

That’s certainly the logical one, yes. I’ll try turning it off & report back…
3 Edward Jan 21st, 2004 at 1:28 pm

I wondered whether it was your Sony Ericsson software. If they can’t write an OS on your phone….. need I say more?

Probably related to what Ben said.
4 Andrew Jan 21st, 2004 at 9:12 pm

It hasn’t been happening today, oddly. It’s the aliens, that’s what it is.
5 Ben Jan 22nd, 2004 at 8:49 pm

Hopefully it’s not the same as the signal in Independence Day, or we’re buggered
6 Andrew Jan 23rd, 2004 at 10:19 am

Yeah, that would be a problem
I’ve got clipboard viewer running in a corner, so when the DiddiPhone invades I’ll hopefully be able to gleam some insight into the inner workings of the alien psyche

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