Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
In our second last installment, I discovered that my new iPod has a problem that if you play it on battery for 3-4 hours and then pause it long enough for it to turn itself off, it wouldn’t come back on without a full hard reset/reboot. Which is a drag because you lose your place in the playlist you were listening to.
That problem might actually be fixed!
Continue reading “Finally some tentatively good news about my iPod”
Ok, my cell phone sucks. And it got worse when I ill-advisedly bought a fancy painted cover for it, which involved taking the guts out of the existing cover and putting them in the new one.
So getting little drop-outs during calls is nothing new. Unfortunately during the call I got a few seconds ago, from a cell phone in Maryland, it happened just when the caller said who it was. The voice was a little familiar, and when he asked if I’ve been flying recently I guessed he’s probably from the Piper mailing list. But since he’d called to ask about his problems with Windows 98, I couldn’t really help. I don’t know that much about Windows, and I’d sort of like to keep it that way.
I love night flying. I hate winter flying. Last night, I did both at once.
Continue reading “Night Flying, Winter Flying”
I got my iPod back from Apple service. And it has a different serial number, which means they replaced it rather than fixing it. (Too bad they didn’t replace it with a 3rd Generation iPod.) I’m almost sure than this means I have a fresh zero-time battery – unless they’re hauling them out of returns to save money.
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.