With their launch of new iMacs and Mac Pros yesterday, Apple are perhaps copping the most flack for discontinuing the 24 and 30 inch Cinema Displays. Presented for your consideration are my thoughts, interspersed with plenty of pointless nostalgia. Is that how you spell "interspersed"? Doesn’t look right.
In our efforts to clean out our apartment here, we decided to put a bunch of old home entertainment equipment up on eBay. I’d forgotten just how maddeningly frustrating it could be!
It’s so rare for me these days to have an excellent customer support experience that when it does happen I feel compelled to tell as many people about it as possible.
When a certain subset of students (alliteration is awesome) finish their exams for a semester they celebrate by intoxicating themselves with certain fermented beverages, while other more socially awkward loser types such as myself sit back and write a blog post about how they’re investigating signing up for Audible.com, then like a child on Christmas Eve because they’re too excited to wait they go ahead and register for it before they’ve finished said investigation.
I tell you what, having been a listener to TWiT and most of Leo’s other shows since the beginning I’ve been hearing a lot about Audible and have finally decided to take the plunge! There’s only one small problem, as an Aussie who lives in Australia and Singapore I’m not sure which of their sites to use. In their English language forms, Audible is made up of Audible.com in the United States and Audible.co.uk in the United Kingdom, neither country of which I’m a resident of.
Having just talked about him yesterday (Keith Olbermann’s Countdown as a podcast), I just found out through his show’s site you can buy a Keith Olbermann bobblehead complete with a little desk!
Keith Olbermann Bobblehead — Now you can sit down with your favorite MSNBC personality, Keith Olbermann. This new bobblehead features the talk show host seated at his Countdown desk. You’ll have a front row seat for all the action.
I reckon he’d go great with my anime figures, they could all set up some sort of weird newsroom ^_^. If anyone wants to buy me one, let me know and I’ll forward you my address. Don’t all rush to offer at once!
Barely had I finished that previous whimsical post about DOS nostalgia than something arrived in the mail that I just have to ramble on about here now too! I’ll pretend it was intentional. Yeah, that works :).
News stories are spreading like some sort of fire (a wild one I presume) that initial sales of the Bakemonogatari DVDs and BluRay discs have not only outsold the disastrous and missed opportunity that was the second season of Haruhi, but even K-On! In real terms outselling Haruhi didn’t surprise me, but beating the K-On with its huge impact on popular culture (sales of musical instruments, shimapan bowls and whatnot) was quite an achievement.
Remember almost one month ago to this day I registered for a Woolworths Everyday Rewards loyalty card? My primary reason was so I could present the card when I shop at my local Woolies here in Mawson Lakes so the check out folks wouldn’t ever ask me if I had one ever again, and to that end its been a huge success!
Turns out I should have been more cautious after all, this morning I got my first spam message from them, and unfortunately even after reading the whooping 23 lines of fine print at the bottom of the message I see no way to unsubscribe. I suspect the only way would be to cancel my account.
I guess it’s just transferring the irritation from people asking me for that card over to the realm of electronic junk mail. I’ll admit it’s an improvement, but not exactly what I was looking for.
Hi! I'm Ruben Schade and this is my labour of love blog from beautiful Singapore and Sydney.
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