Monday, 6. July 2009, 16:11:58
apple, hate, annoyances, mac
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I could have written this post about the Game Maker 8 beta, but I have barely touched it. All I have done is tested out Time Rift, and Game Maker 8 appears to give the protagonist lead feet. It's hard to describe, so I wont bother.
I could have written this post about the new Opera snapshot release, but the only real change is that the awesome skin has been ditched in favour of a blander one. I actually copied over the old skin into the new Opera so as not to lose it.
I could have written about Michael Jacksons death, and about my opinion of the site that first reported it.
But I haven't, and I wont. This post is about a special kind of advertising.
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Thursday, 26. March 2009, 23:57:27
warranty, mac, dell, fixy
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14 months ago, I bought myself a nice new MacBook. About nine months ago, a friend of mine bought a new Dell laptop. The difference in price equates to around $US100, with the only real difference (besides the obvious) was that hers had a hard drive twice as big. Six months after purchase, mine developed a crack near one edge of the top panel. Three months after purchase, hers stopped working. It wouldn't boot at all. Let's compare customer services.
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