Category: Rant

Remember how in Rants and Revelations: My iPod is dead… I mentioned how I had to call Apple Care because their stupid web site wouldn’t accept my serial number? Well, either because I actually talked to somebody or because Apple are a bunch of theiving low-lives, I got an invoice today for $49 for a one day Apple Care.
Continue reading “Fucking Apple Again”

There are a lot of things to like about Apple. They make the coolest, sexiest hardware on the planet, especially their laptops and iPods. They did Unix right in a way that 100,000 Linux geeks never managed to do. They put together a suite of applications that make some of the stuff that people want to do with computers dead easy – while purposely making them limited and unpowerful enough to keep the door open for third party products that do the same things only better. When their hardware works, it works perfectly.
Continue reading “Why Apple is going to go out of business”

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.
Continue reading “Well, that was an hour I’ll never have again…”

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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