Well where to start with this wonderful story. So I'm talking on the phone this afternoon, trying to schedule a meeting with admin from another office. I'm looking through my Outlook calendar hoping to find a few hours free in the next two weeks to book her in for a conference call when I hear three really loud beeps come from the ThinkCentre tower on my desk. These beeps were loud enough that the person in the next cube heard them. Then my screen went black. Pitch black, like in I'm screwed pitch black. AWESOME!!! So I try to start it back up. I get the same three loud beeps and shut down. WTF. Pull power cable, wait 30 seconds, plug back in. No power to the box now.
Well I can see that the quality IBM was bringing to the desktop and laptop market went out the door when Levono purchased them. I've used IBM laptops, desktops, and servers for over 10 years. I have never seen the failure rate as high as it has been since Levono purchased them. I won't even go into the T60 notebooks. My blood pressure can't take it. Thinking happy thoughts, puppies and kitties. O.k. I'm better now...
I got Mobile 6 on my Treo thanks to some wonderful people in Russia and Google. Mobile 6 runs like a charm so far. I really do like it a lot. Much faster, and the battery life is even better. I know some might find this hard to believe, but after a full day my battery is way fuller than normal, AND I have been using the phone more today than normal since I'm looking at all the new features, GUI, etc. I only feel for you suckers that are left in the Windows Mobile 5 world, or worse yet, Pocket PC 2003. For all you dev's, .NET Framework 2.0 Compact is now in ROM. Yes, you read that right. Isn't that the cat's meow?!! Oh and Bubble Breaker, Google Maps, and MAME still work in Mobile 6.
I've been looking hard at those MacBooks. A kid in the VB.NET class I'm taking has one and man that new screen is just WAY too sexy. I could see the Costoda using that instead of his 24" iMac at home. Now if I could get it into the building at work without El Guapo having the snipers shoot me down because I'm carrying an Apple product.
Last but not least big thanks to Mac Daddy Micheal at work for scoring me a new 2 GB iPod Nano from the Apple store in Milwaukee after my current one did the "white screen of death". I love my iPod Nano and running hasn't been the same since I've been forced to use my 30 GB iPod video.
Needless to say I predict a new iPod in my future as Apple has a new event scheduled for September 5th. What can I do? The Steve says I should buy all his good warez because Apple rules. I must obey the Steve, for he tells me all that is good in the universe comes from Apple....
-Costoda
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