When apples go pear shaped...

Most of you reading this are aware that I like my Apple products. My iPhone, my Macbook and not forgetting my Mac Mini. I usually have no reason to bad mouth them - they work as expected and do what I ask of them. Everyone is happy.

Imagine my disappointment recently when I started experiencing signal problems with my iPhone 4S. I've had no problems picking up a signal before with a phone, so it must be the device! So off it goes back to Apple.

So, today I receive a nice parcel from UPS with my replacement phone, except, it's the wrong one! Somehow the person at Apple's service centre can't tell the difference between white and black, 32gb and 64gb, and is unable to restore a phone before sending.

You're probably thinking, why didn't he just shut up, keep the phone or maybe even profit from it. Well, I'm not like that. Plus it'd blow up in my face if there was something wrong with it and I needed more support on it. It's also locked to the Three network which is worse than having No Signal on Vodafone.

Patrick in Apple's Customer Relations is now on the case and I have every faith in his ability. He's promised a brand spanking new 32GB White iPhone 4S with a new 12 month warranty. I'm secretly hoping he 'accidentally' sends a 64GB.

I guess it's back to another day without a working phone...

Posted by: Chris H on 18/01/2012 19:01:27 GMT - Permalink - No Comments

Photographic Interlude

I just found a great excuse to put some photographs online.

Today sees a new feature making it into the blog... inline fancy photos. To demonstrate what I mean by this, I submit the following for your approval.

This was taken at Universal Orlando Resort back in August 2011. On the hill, you can see the mock-up of Hogwarts castle in Harry Potter land. The amount of people at this place is beyond silly.

Taken out of the window at the gate at Orlando Airport also in August 2011. You can see the Virgin Atlantic plane 'Hot Lips' preparing to fly back to London Gatwick.

If this works out nicely, I'll add more photos to the blog over time. Let me know what you think!

Posted by: Chris H on 16/01/2012 01:42:46 GMT - Permalink - No Comments

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Posted by: Chris H on 15/01/2012 02:09:44 GMT - Permalink - 1 Comment

The blog is alive!

Phew!

It's been hard work, but I'm happy to report the basics for the blog and website are now complete. There's still some work on the backend still to be done, but this shouldn't affect the front-end too much.

I'll be posting some updates on what else is planned including new blog features and how the site is all brought together.

In the mean time, if you spot anything wrong or out of place, please contact me via the contact form or via Twitter.

Posted by: Chris H on 15/01/2012 02:06:11 GMT - Permalink - No Comments