Monthly Archives: October 2006

Micropod dead. Red takes over.

So, Friday Oct 27 my newly batteried (due to the apple battery settlement) 3rd gen ipod (Micropod) fell a full 3 feet off my desk at work as I was packing to leave and landed on its head. Sadly (electronics usually do pretty well with me), it now makes an unhappy grinding noise noise [...]

Looking for Mice

So, I’m in the market for a cordless mouse for my new San Francisco work. Today I stumbled on this one, the Logitech MX 610. I like the logitech mice usually, and its kind of a nice mouse at first glance, but then notice the email and im buttons on the mouse. I don’t know [...]

Geeks will know to laugh.

Thought this was funny. Got an email today from AirTran regarding online check-in for my flight to San Francisco. This would be a great little “this is broken” anecdote.
From: Atlanta, GA (ATL) / Departing: 9:30 AM
To: San Francisco, CA (SFO) / Arriving: 12:1 PM
My flight arrives at 12:01 PM. Apparently someone forgot that we humans [...]