Soragon • 27th Feb 2010 • Apple • Apple, ebay, free, macbook pro
As most of you who follow me on Twitter would know by now, my old 2007 MBP had several issues. I emailed “Steve Jobs” and an executive of Apple Asia replied. In the end, they picked up my notebook via courier and sent me a new one. It arrived only a few days later.
I was extremely happy with Apple’s service and help in this. I could not believe how nice and amiable they were. Several emails and phone calls where exchanged between Apple and I. Now, I sit on this lovely, very sexy machine, blown away at what I thought heartless corporations just did.
The Apple Executive who I had contact with even went to the point of refunding the rest of my AppleCare Warranty left. I just want to congratulate Apple for making me such a happy customer. I also have some valuable information I would like to share with the rest of you that I learnt from the Apple Asia/Australia Executive I talked to. I first asked about new MacBook Pros coming out. Quote: “As you know, Apple does not reveal information about upcoming unreleased products… So I can’t reveal anything at the moment.” I also asked about the iPad Australian pricing and they did say it would be close to the American pricing but with Australian Dollar inflation etc.
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Soragon • 9th Feb 2010 • The case against: • blog, forums, internet, journal, The case against:, twitter
I must confess. Most my time on the internet these days is mostly on Twitter and Google Reader. In fact, I’ve been addicted to Twitter so much that I pointed my domain, soragon.net directly to my Twitter account itself. I found no use of writing a blog. What was the point? I had no reason. Now, after several odd years of living the life on an internet junkie, I finally decided to go and produce content rather than consume it.
But hold on, that doesn’t mean I’m a total nutcase who hasn’t spoken at all, quite the contrary. I’m quite happy to say that I’m a very active Twitter user. I also love, and I mean love to go on forums. Once upon a time I was an active user on the Inheritance Forums, the official forums of shurtugal.com, the go-to fansite for the Inheritance Trilogy (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr…). In fact, I was a moderator for the Graphics section of the site for quite a while, but I resigned due to no activity on the site. I was also on the very well known graphics site Bratz-Design which was shut down a few years ago, to my dismay. My history with forums go as far back as 2003, when I was only 10 years old. I’ll stop here because it’ll bore you, but you get the gist.
I love podcasts. My life is based around podcasts. They keep me entertained while studying, commuting, working, exercising and showering (yes, showering). When I listen to these podcasts, I always have opinions of the matters at hand and of recent news, but I had no way to be heard. I mean, who’s going to read my blog? (By the way, I don’t think it should be called a blog, more like a public journal). So Twitter and Friendfeed were the only two ways I was going to be heard, and there, on those two social networking sites, I the people who would listen and are interested in what you have to say. Geeks basically owned Twitter, that was until Oprah joined (and since then, I’ve lost interest at a rate of y=e^(-x)+2). So I found the geek community but then it got very bogged down and when too many people started using the service it became a spam hole and all sorts of technical issues came into play. You also feel the need to follow a lot of people, and when you start to follow all these people, Twitter ceases to function as it should. But I’ll leave that for another blog post concerning Twitter and Friendfeed.
I feel like I’ve talked too much for my own good. I have a lot more to say but I have time constraints, since I’m in Year 12. I should get some sleep too. But in essence, the reason I have created a blog is because I need something other than Twitter that I can express my geek thoughts on technological matters at hand. 140 characters will not suffice, although it does have its advantages. It’s also a great way to improve my writing, since that’s becoming horrible and nearly illegible in the sense that I don’t make sense. See what I mean?
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