Archive for March 15th, 2004

Tentative woo hoo!

Monday, March 15th, 2004

The Apple web site says that my replacement iPod was shipped today and the case closed. Before you start jumping up and down with joy at the thought that my cubicle neighbours may live another day, remember that the last time Apple said my replacement iPod was shipped and closed the case, they promptly lost the replacement order somewhere on its way from service to fullfillment, and I didn’t get it until a month and a half later when Maddy and several other Best Mates called Apple to complain bitterly. Sadly, it seems that Apple wrote their own tracking software, and it sucks.

At least that time I got a Marware case and an iRock by way of apology.

I hope they remembered to engrave this one the same as the original.

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Well, that was an hour I’ll never have again…

Monday, March 15th, 2004

After all the worrying I did about the meeting that I posted about in Ominous…, it turns out that the meeting was called to address some whinging about the company bonus.
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Ominous…

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Thanks to my experience at GeoVision, I get more than a little bit scared when a secretary comes around to personally hand out meeting notices to a “Group Discussion”, and checks your name off on a list when she gives you your invitation. Especially when you work for a shrinking company in a lousy economy.
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The winning streak is over.

Monday, March 15th, 2004

Darn it. Up until this morning, the last 9 Diet Pepsis I’d bought had free iTunes in them. Today I got a “PLEASE PLAY AGAIN” cap. This one came from a vending machine, so I couldn’t try the bottle tilting trick. Not that I can get that trick to work anyway - it’s too hard to see the difference between “AGAIN” and “SONG” through the swirly plastic and condensation fog inside the bottle.

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