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Wednesday, 30th April 2008

Nikke Bedi on botox and non-bailable arrest warrants

I have been talking about taking data sabbaticals for a while now, switching off my phone and not going near my computer. I took one briefly this week. My phone fell into my mopping bucket and sank. My life’s data was submerged, possibly irretrievably. Why, oh why, hadn’t I backed it all up? I remembered hearing that putting a wet phone into dry rice overnight can fix the situation. The rice is supposed to draw out all the moisture. It was worth a try so I put mine into a bag of basmati and prayed for desiccation. I then spent the night vacillating between the idea of how liberating it was to be phone-free, how the enforced social pruning might actually be a good thing, and then sheer panic at the thought of being incommunicado and losing a world of contacts and some sentimental photos.

The rice rescue worked! At the end of all my long interviews I always ask my guest a few Pivot questions and, to ‘Asianise’ slightly, I ask people to choose between rice or roti. No contest for me now.

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