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Geek cred? Gone. (plus some questions)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

So for a few months now the headphones on my iPhone have not been working properly… music comes out of them but I can’t use the line mic that was included with them. I imagined all sorts of problems, faults with the wireing, faults with the button etc etc… what I didn’t do was look it up online or drop by Vodafone (or mention it to my buddy Dean or his lovely wife Veronica,  when I was up in Wellington. You know, the couple who worked at a premium Mac retailer). 

So it finally bugged me enough to drop by the Vodafone store.. the nice man there (HI AARON!) said “oh, it’s probably lint and proceeded to pick out a huge piece from the headphone jack. He gave it to me and said “there you can go home and make a jersey”. Works like new. 

Which brings me to two questions:

  1. Why is vodafone’s instore and email help so good when their telephone support is such utter complete crap? 
  2. Why don’t cases for the iPhone ship with a little flap to cover the headphone jack?

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The very definition of a First World Problem

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

The other day I was doing something around the house. And things weren’t working out the way I wanted them to. I was getting frustrated and grumpy and snippy.

And then I started to laugh at myself.

Because what I was so pissed about was that running the power supply for my 3.5 year old son’s computer was not working out the way I wanted it to.

NB: It’s an old B and W G3 with a piddling amount of RAM, but come on.. it’s a computer for a 3 year old.

Clearly I need to get some perspective.

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