Installing a JAR without a JAD

Apparently that's supposed to mean something to me. It sounds pretty funny. I guess I need to keep reading the manual. I just a got a new phone, you see, and it'll supposedly run little Java programs ... they call them MIDlets. Like Applets. Only smaller. Stupid. I've never written a program for a mobile phone before, and I doubt the API they provide is sufficient to do much, but, I had this one idea: Modes.

Here's the problem: I don't turn my phone off, even when I really want to be sleeping and not interrupted, because it's possible that someone really will need to contact me, and I want to be, well, contactable (and if you think that's just being paranoid, you obviously don't have a cousin who needs you to watch her five kids, because she just smeared spackle in her eyes, late at night, and needs to be taken to the hospital). And there are people who want to contact me, but don't *need* to contact me, and wouldn't have woken me up if they had known I was sleeping.

So, in the case of Sleep Mode, if a call came in, my phone would automatically answer and announce that it was in Sleep Mode (pehaps with a recorded explanation of what that meant). If the caller wanted to make the phone ring, he would press 1; otherwise, he could press 2 and leave a voicemail.

This isn't actually intended to *forcibly prevent* the phone from ringing; only to inform the caller of the situation, and if the caller is someone who wants to remain a friend, the caller will heed the instructions and act accordingly. And maybe it would be configurable so that my Work group on the cell phone would automatically ring and by-pass the Sleep Mode behavior.

In the mean time, I have partial solutions, like I tell my sister that if it is an emergency, and I don't answer, to call twice. Like, if I'm in a meeting, or worse - in the shower, and she really needs to talk, to just call back immediately, and I'll leave the meeting, or get out of the shower ... only it had better be an emergency. I'm sure she still remembers the wrath - the time she called twice, because she hung up too soon to leave a voicemail ... grrrr.

I leave you with this: an interesting take on Jingle Bells:

Jingle Bells, Reversed

Merry Christmas, and all that crap.