Maybe it's a bit late to be excited to have Blackberry Bold now, but anyway I've got one because I had a bonus this week. I ordered it online and this morning a courier delivered it to my house.

These are a cradle, a charger, USB cables and screen protectors I ordered from Hong Kong before hand.

I pulled my SIM card off my Blackberry 8707h I kept so far, put it into the Blackberry Bold and turned its power switch on. After several initial setups, the main menu appeared and NTT DoCoMo network was captured.

One problem occured. I found there was no email settings so I couldn't set up emails I had used on 8707h. According to manuals, it was necessary to log in to Blackberry's website at blackberry.com to change PIN and IMEI into ones of the Blackberry Bold, as well as to send a service book to the new device. Doing so, three email icons according to the email accounts I'd used so far appeared on the Blackberry Bold's screen.

I configured its WiFi settings so that I can use it over the wireless LAN in my room, and set up Bluetooth so as to send files to my Nokia smartphones. I installed Google Sync into it to synchronize contacts into Gmail's ones. Other than them, I installed twitterberry, a news reader and other utilities to make it more convenient when commuting to and from office.

Now the setups are almost complete, except for one problem with USB connection to my PC. I installed Blackberry Desktop Manager on my PC running Windows XP and connected my Blackberry Bold to it with a USB cable, but nothing was detected. When I connect my 8707h with the same USB cable to the PC, it can be normally detected. Why? Windows XP problem? Or problems with settings of the Blackberry Bold? Please tell me why if you have any idea.

Today it was announced that three high school students in Kobe, who had never been abroad before, had been suffered from swine flu. Although some people who came back from Canada were found H1N1 positive before, they were hospitalized before they got into the mainland so the virus wasn't spread. However, today's event prove that the virus had spread all over this country.

I feel anxious about my friends, my parents, my brother, my sister and their families because most of them live within or near Kobe and they are very close to the outbreak area.

This has taught us the important lesson that, wherever you are, there's no safe place. It's wrong to blame those who are going abroad, because, in Japan or in another country, you have the same possibility to have the flu.

Anyway, all that I can do would be to prepare for its national outbreak. I already got a personal protection pack from American Red Cross shop to have hand sanitizer, face masks and other prevention items. The next thing I want to do for flu prevention is ... to take a leave for a few weeks to drink beer in my house ;-)

Today is my birthday. Thanks everybody who gave me messages.

I wanted to celebrate myself, but unfortunately I've had a cold for a few days and I'm too tired to do something.... All I could do is to sleep well. The only present was to find out that health is really important....