You have a nice Nokia mobile phone, but you are restless and bored. Is it the grinding greyness of the Irish winter? Could it be that you are feckless by nature? Or have you realised that, in terms of time and space, life is devoid of meaning?
No. These are mere symptoms of a greater malaise, one that has taken up squatting rights on the front of your mobile phone, the symbol of your very existence. The problem is the operator logo.
Everyone with a mobile phone has an operator logo - it is the ever-present line of text across the display panel that advertises Eircell or Digifone or whoever. But this appalling situation continues only because the phone companies are cleverer programmers than you are. Wouldn't it be nice to have something else in that vital space. Something that reflected your personality?
Well now you can say goodbye to those "my-life-is-a-vacuum" blues, with a new Internet facility that allows you change your operator logo. Simply surf to www.dialaring.com and choose a new logo from the hundreds they have on display, from Celtic to South Park. You can even design your own. Then you ring their (premium) telephone number, and send it to yourself. You can also send yourself new ringing tones.
New logos and ringing tones - for some Nokia phones only - are on www.dialaring.com and cost around £2.25 (€2.86) in phone charges.
Gizmo suggestions welcome: smaccarthaigh@irish-times.ie
