I have a feed that aggregates my tumblr and Posterous feeds.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/raddevon/radmicro
I purchased a Mini Inspiron from a seller on eBay. It had never been opened. He called them to transfer the warranty to me and was told it would take 10-15 business days. Naturally, the notebook turned out to be defective from the box. It does not charge when connected to a power outlet. The charge cable has some play left and right when it is connected so I suspect the receptacle is not properly attached to the motherboard. I called Dell for support. They first suggested that there may be a BIOS update that will fix the problem. However, they could not even give me the link to download the update because the warranty had not yet been transferred to my name. I called back to check the status of the transfer but they cannot do this. I have heard from two different reps that I can “one-ly” (I assume they mean “only”) transfer the warranty online. Last night I heard from a different rep that they can transfer the warranty immediately if they have the first and last name to which the computer is currently registered. I must call them up to provide this in spite of the fact that the original owner has already initiated a transfer of ownership and, in doing so, given them his name, my name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and whether or not I’m circumcised. It seems obvious to me that these are merely arbitrary barriers so that Dell will have a convenient way to evade having to make good on their warranty. The lessons learned:
Happy computer shopping!
I previously posted about hypermiling and started employing some of the techniques in my own driving. I can now claim minor success! On the last two gallons of gas purchased, my mileage was 31.5—a gain of 3.5mpg on my measurement when I purchased the car! It’s pretty exciting to me considering there are still a number of other things I can do to improve my mileage like replacing the air filter, having an oil change (I’m overdue.), and correcting the tire pressure. I’ll keep you posted
I want to like Twitterrific so badly because it is obviously a Mac-native app. It is gorgeous. It has cool notification sounds when someone tweets. There are also some problems. I can’t look at a single individual’s tweets within the interface. I can’t follow people from within the interface. I can’t easily switch between the public and my own timeline.
I want to like twhirl so badly because it has nearly every feature of twitter.com and then some. The aesthetics are not at all shabby. It has great notifications. I love the added picture and url shortening functionality. There are some problems. I can’t get to the public timeline at all. It stops responding at all from time to time. I would prefer it on the menubar, or, at the very least, the “Hide when minimized” option in the preferences should work!
What’s a geek to do?
I’ll get back in the swing of things soon. I’ve got some ideas but no means to articulate them right now…