High Quality Control together with Ted Kaczynski’s Misinterpreted Brilliance
Now I constructed an audio tracks workstation PC in February. Intel Quad processor, 3 HDs, 4G RAM. A couple weeks ago, it goes on the fritz. After trying to fix it unsuccessfully, I ship the mother board in. Two weeks later (yesterday) it comes back. Same problem. So they issue me a new RMA and so I have to mail it in once more.
I won a Sony Playstation Portable at a trade show a year ago. American Airlines apparently decided to crush my suitcase so it broke the display. Called Sony, mailed us a box and for $80 they’ll ship us a reconditioned one – no repair. The refurbished one got here and the optical disk drive doesn’t function. Shipping out yet another box to mail that one in.
Down load a ‘what is blogging and how does it work‘ study course with my reasonably new Dell laptop and the battery power manages to lose its charge after 20 minutes. Call up Dell, talk to someone I cannot understand and proclaims their batteries have virtually no warranty…I believe that’s what he said.
Purchased a Logitech Harmony remote control. My daughter knocks my cup of water on it. So now it uses up its batteries in one day. No maintenance option.
Blackberry began shutting down the other day after telephone calls and won’t fire up except when I plug it in. Brought it to 2 AT&T outlets yesterday – virtually no ability to diagnose whatsoever. Go to the Apple store, thinking maybe I just get an iPhone. Nothing in stock. If I want one, line up at 7am the next day for the exclusive 8am opening used just for iPhone purchases that has been going on for a month.
Forget that, absolutely no way I’m getting that close to those Apple nutjobs. Purchase a new battery for the Blackberry, however they must order it since no-one carries Blackberry Curve batteries (?!?). Get a note this morning that the battery is backordered. Apparently my mobile blogging will have to wait…
I got myself this “Invisible Shield” case for my iPod and Blackberry. Thin sheets of clear plastic you apply to safeguard them. Put it on the iPod, click wheel no longer works. Go back and forth with them and they will take no responsibility. Can’t repair iPod because it’s outdated and they will no longer repair those iPods. However Apple will offer me 10% off of the purchase of a new one! You know exactly where they can put that apple.
Begin to use my wife’s iPod, yet another device I won on the job and then that stops working. Hard drive. They don’t manufacture those particular hard drives anymore. So I pry open both iPods and swap hard drives for one functioning iPod. That’s my greatest tech story in a year. Yay!.
Montana. Log cabin. Lantern. Pen and paper. I’m positive I have a manifesto inside me.
I just hope my brother Kenny doesn’t turn me in.
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