Charles on… anything that comes along

I just want you to know that I’m taking my life into my hands writing this. Yes, my laptop battery is one of the 1.8 million covered by the Apple “not our fault, honest, blame Sony” recall. (Odd how it’s Dell’s fault when they recall, but Sony’s fault when Apple recalls them.) At any moment the whole thing could burst into flames, like something out of Bleak House. (Isn’t that the one?)

I think actually it works out to a good deal for folk like me. The battery is about 20 months old and has been doing sterling work as I go up and down on trains, so that the life is down to two hours from having been discharged/recharged. Now I’ll get a new one, which will be in the prime of life and - one hopes - won’t burst into flames at an inopportune moment. There may be an opportune moment for a laptop battery to burst into flames (when it’s being used by a spy?), but I’d rather not be around for it.

In the meantime I’m reading Applepeels, the blog of an ex-Apple sales employee who was high up on the government side. Verrrry interesting.

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