Hmmm? Isn't it? Banana?

Techno-disaster week.

It's all gone a bit wrong.

Macbook Pro:
1: Horrid whistling from front left - potentially diagnosed as needing a new logic board (5-7 days away for repair).

2: As I was, rather ironically, on the phone to the Apple repair centre to report this - I was waiting in the queue for them to answer - my battery shat it's pants. Total loss of 1/4 power in less than a second. After I plugged AC power in, it initially told me that it would take 55 hours to recharge it... I suspected a problem. They'll swap this over when it goes back.

3: Also, the default Mail application won't talk to my mail server to allow me to send mails. This is an arse. I want to use it (as opposed to Thunderbird still), as it talks to the address book which talks to everything else. Bah. I may change my email address drop box (no change to any of you lot, don't worry. Invisible and behind the scenes).

And even more annoyingly (nothing has actually terminally broken on the Macbook - the battery is behaving at present):

My camera is fucked. I am, unsurprisingly, monumentally pissed off about this. Especially as it happened when John the stupid cunt through a football (not even a proper one) at someone sat at my table, missed, and fired my camera straight off the table onto the concrete path. Fucking cunt-faced bastard. It has smashed the selector button for picture/film/playback off, so the camera is not much fucking use right now, being stuck on play and that. Also, the zoom sounds very noisy now, but that might be my paranoia. If he wasn't so fucking enormous, I'd have even considered smacking him in the mouth for being so bloody stupid around everyone's kit, but at the risk of being a coward, I shall claim 'sensible' and just be mighty fucked off about it.

So I am grumpy today. Pretty much lots.

posted by Brock @ Tuesday, August 01, 2006