The Geeky Brit

Mr Software and Beer writes on his blog about Apple’s great level customer service – and adversely how customer service trends in general tend to be taking a downward spiral.

I am so with him on this. I come from a land where customer service synonyms include rude, disrespectful and lacking. I too really dislike the trend here in the USA to be less trusting. It goes against the technology curve, as I am very sure there are solutions out there that adequately replace the annoying “exit greeter” at BestBuy.

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Save the Date for WWDC07: “Join developers and IT professionals from around the globe as they come together for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2007.”

Uncle Greg, Can I go? Please, Can I? Come On! Rob will look after me!

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So here I was sat in my Fresno office, and I felt my 3rd earthquake in 4 years of living in California….

It was quite a ways away in the mountains, and it currently reported at a 3.8 (I would not have noticed if I wasn’t I was sat down).

For those people who question my sanity for living in an “earthquake hotspot”, rest assured I am still alive and coding…

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My work buddy diatoid just purchased a MacMini for use in the living room, and is pretty happy with using it as a home entertainment system – especially as we just figured out how to stream DivX movies from his linux server to the FrontRow interface: You just mount a network drive and create a symlink from the /Volumes/MountedShare in your /Users/username/Movies/ folder.

I have been pondering a Home PC / Network Entertainment system for a while, especially since I have a load of DivX movies (legal backups). Wouldn’t it be nice to play movies on your big screen plasma just like playing from a DVD jukebox? What about streaming music?

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