In search of the “Perfect” Theme
Been tinkering big time with my themes lately, in hopes of arriving, once and for all, at the perfect, most appropriate theme for this blog. You might say I keep redecorating this blog to compensate for not being able to redecorate my own house (but even that will get a minor redo tomorrow, pics to follow).
Patient reader, my apologies for the eyestrain. I hope to spend a few more hours tonight tweaking, and perhaps even giving up if I don’t get what I want. But you’ll be the first to know once I’ve settled on something. *wink*
Lazy Valentines Evening
Really lazy evening this, when we didn’t even bother to buy/rent DVDs to watch. And there was no need for it, with Star Movies showing A Walk in the Clouds early in the evening, and then Love Actually after that. Not for us the mad rush to posh restaurants on this night, definitely not a night to check in at a motel when every room is bound to be taken. It’s little Maia’s birthday so I left the office early to catch a few more hours with my baby on her birthday, and when it was her bedtime, time to catch up on the tube. Spent the evening snuggled up with a bag of Boy Bawang.
Two Today!
I know a girl
She puts the color inside of my world
But she’s just like a maze
Where all of the walls all continually change
And I’ve done all I can
To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands
Now I’m starting to see
Maybe it’s got nothing to do with meFathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too– John Mayer, Daughters
Under Warranty
Those may well be the two sweetest words in Technical Support. Under Warranty. Anything that fails under warranty can conveniently be sent out for repair in exchange for a loaner service unit so you get minimal downtime. Some companies don’t even bother to repair a failed unit, they just ship you a new one. American Power Corporation (APC) does that with their UPS products, and Iomega with their storage solutions. Some systems even come with a lifetime warranty, like the HP networking switches. Bust one port on an HP 8- 24- or 48-port switch and they ship you a whole new unit, even if your unit is 5 years old.
One of my best experiences about warranty is the IBM Thinkpad’s 3-year warranty. Our office issue Thinkpads have in their third year of warrantly had suffered one minor form of failure: The R40’s display would every now and then become garbled, The T40’s LCD cover when moved would cause the display to disappear, and my T42’s fan just quit. In all cases, our supplier Technopaq had taken in the laptops and arranged for a new system board for each. I still have two more years to go on the warranty on the T42, but both the R40 and the T40 were on their final months of warranty. Getting a new board for them is almost like getting a new machine.
So my T42 (well, technically not MINE but the company’s, but no one else gets to use it but me, so there) is in the shop. It’s been there since Thursday. They have the system board on stock so I should be seeing it again middle of next week after tests and all, almost as good as new.
Which means, I have an excuse NOT to work this weekend.
He he he.
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