31st of March, 2008
Yesterday I linked to an article at The Boy Genius Report about Apple’s lack of care for a customer who spilt water on his Macbook. It initially struck me as stupid but after reading it over again, it’s worse than I thought. Continue reading →
I love how the article calls it “water damage” as if he didn’t just spill a glass of water all over the keyboard. He sent an email to sjobs@apple.com bitching that Apple Care didn’t cover it, they replied with this:
This is what happens when your MacBook Pro sustains water damage.They are pro machines and they don’t like water. It sounds like you’re just looking for someone to get mad at other than yourself.
Good on them, warranties don’t cover carelessness on your part. “The Boy Genius Report” ends it with:
Come on, Apple. Seriously, this isn’t a good way to treat your customers, though you do get major points for the witty and comical response.
Who trained the monkeys that run these kind of websites? It makes me sick how popular they are.
I’ve been using the release candidates for a while now and it looks and works brilliantly. Wordpress.org got a long overdue refreshment too.
29th of March, 2008
I don’t believe whole-heartedly in Feng Shui but I agree with their philosophies on clutter, if only by coincidence. After spending a long time with my computer in my bedroom I was spending a lot of time in there, it felt unhealthy and I was getting sick of it. Our house has a real office, occupied by my Mum’s business but it also has a recently vacated “study nook” — the business side of my bedroom moved in. Continue reading →
There should be some really great stuff there as time goes by, from me at least, I can’t make any promises for the other Panedia staff (just kidding Aaron).
Includes some comparisons between how it once was and it’s current state. An entire forest has grown around the whole thing a forest that makes it very much look like something you’d see on LOST. I can just imagine them finding an abandoned theme park in today’s episode. Via Kottke.
Huge amount of “photographs” on packaging compared to what’s actually inside. Some are actually very similar but most look terrible. Vial Coudal.
In 9 years Amazon bas barely changed a thing
What I always wonder is where YouTube commenters exist outside of YouTube’s commenting system, it frightens me to think that I see them around me every day. Via Waxy.
Wow:
Rewis proposed to Sullivan via Twitter shortly before midnight March 2: “@stefsull - ok. for the rest of the twitter-universe (and this is a first, folks) - WILL YOU MARRY ME?” Sullivan’s reply: “@garazi - OMG - Ummmmm… I guess in front of the whole twitter-verse I’ll say — I’d be happy to spend the rest of my geek life with you.”
Via Coudal.
Complete with sound effects, an orchestral soundtrack and amazing detail. If you think you’ve seen good impressive Line Rider paths, you haven’t seen anything yet.
24th of March, 2008
On face value my university degree seems and feels worthless. I’ve already learnt, have real world experience with and have a job doing what I’m being taught. The majority of my lecturers are simply graduates of my degree just a few years ahead and the content is outdated — “don’t use serif type on screen” used to be applicable but we’re now in an era where a device dedicated to reading sets type in a serif face. Anyway, I thought it’d be interesting to see how many of the world’s richest people are also university graduates, this is the top 20. Continue reading →
This was certainly the heyday for corporate logos. Amazing how easily they fall back to black and white.
20th of March, 2008
I am a heavy Twitter user and aficionado. Never has a web application answered the needs I didn’t know I had so perfectly. The nature of simple applications like Twitter, a text box with a character limit, allows people adapt the service to almost whatever they want. The way I use it has very little to do with the question “what are you doing?” Continue reading →
Another fantastic installment in The Morning News’s Letters from Paris series. I only spent a very short time in Paris but this describes the feeling I received perfectly:
The traffic wasn’t moving. I asked him to suggest a French game instead that we could play. “OK, OK, here is a French game,” he said. “We will talk about something for a little while. It will be about nothing. We will talk and talk and talk about it. Sometimes I will take the other side of the conversation, just to say you are wrong. And then we will stop.”
He resumed his brooding silence. The composer turned to say he agreed, this was a classic French game.
Again via Kottke.
I’d never heard them referred to as “desire paths” before but I absolutely love it. My favourite caption on one of the images:
The tarmac path carefully skirts the grassy patch - but people don’t.
Kottke reckons he’s heard of some institutions that wait for these paths to be created before building real paths, that’s brilliant!
Wired’s How To Wiki with an extremely dumbed down method for creating fonts, still useful. Via Clusterflock.
Fascinating. Andy Baio has doing some brilliant work recently.
The beautiful song featured in the Schweppes commercial.
I’ve been waiting for this to appear on YouTube since I first saw it on TV a few weeks ago. It’s the best commercial I’ve ever seen, hands down beats anything made for the Bravia or anything comedic.
It’s all so beautiful, beautiful music, beautiful images, beautiful context. The rain as it’s closing out is just perfect. It’s worth watching the rubbish that’s on TV in the hope that this commercial airs. I’d love to find an HD downloadable version.
I’ve heard of a grand total of 6 and only follow one. I spend 12 hours a day on a computer, on the internet, reading — they must be pretty “powerful”. Maybe the list should be titled “50 blogs made popular by wannabe internet marketing entrepreneurs”. Via Swissmiss.
His response was something along the lines of: “No offense, but you won’t ever build a site popular enough to worry about it.” And it’s damn true.
And if you do, you’ll have the resources and time to worry about it — cross the bridge when you get there.
John Gruber nuzzling Merlin Mann’s illustrated face. Update: It’s been changed back to the usual, slightly less creepy image.
I’m not sure if this applies internationally but you certainly have more rights than what I was under the impression you did.
They sent out emails to designers they’ve interviewed and received the most responses from the UK and Japan. I’m fascinated by other people’s desk and computer setups so this is great. I’m surprised to see a couple of 12″ Powerbooks in there. Via Swiss Miss.
