New battery, same old lifestyle
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.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
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August 28th, 2006 at 12:35 am
My battery’s never one of the recalled ones. It’s not fair. I could just do with a new one.
August 28th, 2006 at 12:53 am
“like something out of Bleak House. (Isn’t that the one?)”
Yup. Krook.
August 28th, 2006 at 11:49 am
The optimum moment for a laptop battery to burst into flames is, of course, a second or two after Peter Graves finishes hearing, “This recording will self-destruct in five seconds.”
Although I’m not sure the satisfaction would ever be the same as watching those little tape recorder reels start smoking…
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August 29th, 2006 at 2:15 am
You realize you are forfeiting your chance for YouTube fame… you coul be the guy dowsing your PowerBook with a pitcher of water…
August 29th, 2006 at 2:21 am
Sorry to post off-thread, but what do you do to keep spammers out of your WordPress commenting system? We’re starting to lose the comment spam war over at gulker.com, but I like not forcing registration…
August 29th, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Chris Chris Chris! You’re very welcome to take the post off-topic.
The tool of choice for beating comment spam is the fantastic Spam Karma 2 - a Wordpress plugin for which you will gladly stump up the, um, however much you feel like paying. (It’s donationware.) Just the other day I was thinking that using it has completely taken all the tension over comment spam out of my life. Seriously - it is worth around $100 easily. $20 is cheap.