Recovering dropped data

I HAVE SEVERAL important tasks to accomplish before the end of 2004. All concern recovering data that dropped from view after I skewered or dropped the device that was recording the data. After I recapture the lost data, I need to upgrade my geek bag with better equipment, including a data cable, restored Nokia 9210i, binhex software, and a Nokia 9500 Communicator.

• Restore Nokia 9210i to full health. I dropped my Nokia Communicator one too many times. The last drop was a critical injury. It fell flat on its back from my camera bag to a concrete floor in a parking garage. Only its text function works now, although I can also use the phone's address book to locate phone numbers.
• Back up all 9210i data to hard drive. My 9210i data cable walked off my desk in Santry more than a year ago and I never replaced it. My laptop's IR port doesn't work, so I could not sync the phone any other way. I need to harvest the phone data because it represents a priceless collection of electronic correspondence, meeting notes, calendar items and bookmarks.
• Convert to a Nokia 9500. I'm doing this for pure analogue reasons. Media Writing students take to the Communicator's keyboard format faster than any other mobile phone device so I won't challenge their typing skills with any other user interface. That phone will exhaust both my Christmas and birthday budgets.
• Recover lost data from CF card. I have problems with files written to only one of my CF cards. The Fujifilm 256MB digital memory card is prone to dropping images then dropping its format. The images are in bin hex and recoverable but it will take an afternoon of tediously coping the hexidecimal file information and then recovering it from a sandbox. That has to be done. Along the way, I need to figure out how the data gets skewered in the first place. I know it happens after students use my camera. I have never lost data on a CF card when I'm the sole user of my Fuji S602Z camera. I am going to figure out what happened to the latest batch of photos and tell the world.

Because I'm without a Nokia Communicator, my mail2blog entries will fall off. Two reasons for that: (1) the Communicator is the easiest method I have found to moblog sophisticated content and without that easy method, I'm staying analogue and (2) I need to save money for the purchase of a 9500 and a registered copy of WinHex. Every mail2blog item costs 10 cents. If I don't moblog, I save up to 50 cents a day. That means I could earn a Nokia 9500 in just under four years, sinply by ceasing moblogging.  Gotta get started.

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James Corbett -- "Why I'm sticking with Series 60" with affirmations from Russ Beattie.
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