Voted. Senate paper went to U with 54 boxes to fill out. Polls close at 6pm AEST so first results from around 6:30pm AEST (or 4:30pm my time).
One observation: old people suck at setting up signs and bunting. The Liberal setup at the Riverlinks Community Centre Australind was beyond embarrassing for them. The Independent didn’t have a thing there though, which isn’t a good sign. A couple of half decent shots via my iPhone below.
Interesting call from MyMac Melbourne who weren’t happy with my previous post about them selling me an incomplete iSight kit.
The conversation started well (not): they immediately demanded that I remove the post and YouTube video I put up or I’d be hearing from their lawyers.My response was simply that I want the missing parts to the iSight.
Response was that “I knew what I was getting because it was on the invoice”….to which I simply responded simply that I knew what was in a complete iSight kit and I wasn’t told when buying it that it was incomplete…which then resulted in a cyclical argument relating to the invoice! WTF? According to MyMac I should read the invoice I receive after I purchase the goods to see what I’m not getting. (for the record I may have glanced at the invoice when I got home, but certainly not while I was in the shop).
The argument degraded from there, with several threats that I’d be hearing from MyMacs lawyers. In the end I told the guy to f*ck off and hung up, probably not the most clever thing to do but he was yelling over the phone demanding that I remove the video. I’ve never, ever been treated so poorly or spoken to in this fashion by a company I’ve spent my good money with buying goods. I gave him as many chances I could to resolve it reasonably to absolutely no avail: the notion that the customer is always right is TOTALLY lost on these people, because in their mind selling an incomplete iSight kit without full disclosure is the right thing to do. I wonder if they treat all their customers this way?
If someone more reasonable from MyMac would like to call to discuss this in a more civil manner I’m more than happy to talk to them again. But simply I knew what was suppose to be in an iSight kit and I when I got home it wasn’t there AND NO ONE at MyMac warned me that the kit was incomplete. I wouldn’t have bought it if I had known that for $450 (which may I add is pretty expensive for a web cam) I wasn’t getting the full kit.
If I don’t get a call or email from MyMac Melbourne I’ll be contacting both Apple and the ACCC. I mentioned previously that I was going to contact Apple; I never did because although I was pissy about not getting the mounts there are far more important things in the world to worry about…so I probably only cared for about 5 minutes then never gave it another thought….until today 🙂
I’ve played the video again: the whole tale is true so I’m not sure what grounds they are suing me over…I’m still waiting for my mounts and MyMac didn’t sell me the full package. FACT. Perhaps it’s just a case of a company thinking it can bully an unhappy customer. Sorry MyMac: I’m not the person in the wrong here.
OK, so I was shocked to find that my last post was to episode 2 a week a go. Yes, I need to start personal blogging some more, but in the mean time check out Episode 3 of On The Pod. This week I interview Bronwen Clune of PerthNorg.
Still recovering today from a bike ride from Fishermans Wharf in San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge then back again. About 15 miles, what ever that is in Km I have no idea, but the trip up the hill, wearing RM Williams Moleskins nearly killed me. Amazing the climatic differences in the Bay Area, in the Valley it can be a full 10 degrees warmer than San Francisco, then the bridge is colder again, and there seems to be a never ending amount of fog hogging the coastline. Leaving Wednesday then home Friday.
The Sky is Falling! Well it was 3 weekends ago when I took this. Not bad for a place that according to many is becoming bone dry, a place that is forever suppose to bare the burden of drought. Filmed on my Panasonic DMC FZ-50 still camera, great video quality for a still camera.
This is the latest mouse from Sony. OMFG! Just when you thought Sony had already lost the plot.
(via Crunchgear)
Kylie Hot or Not
You know it's a slow news day when the lead story on news.com.au has this photo with the words "Kylie hit the red carpet at Cannes in this interesting black dress and curious-looking shoes. Blogger Alison Godfrey asks whether the pop pocket rocket is losing her sense of style"Good news for US based bloggers and owners of forums, guestbooks or any other type of site that allows visitors to make comments; a Federal Court ruling in the case of Universal Communication Systems v. Lycos, a case where Universal Communications systems sued Lycos for defamatory statements made on a message board (I presume the mean forum) hosted by Lycos, found that site owners cannot be found liable for comments made by users of that site.
According to the ACSBlog, the court noted that “Congress intended that, within broad limits, message board operators would not be held responsible for the postings made by others on that board,” adding that allowing bloggers and message board operators to be sued for the statements of commenters on their sites would have an “obvious chilling effect” on speech.
(via Slashdot)
Today’s inspirational post bought to you by Quadszilla. Of course he’s right, which is why I’m busy building stuff myself, but when you’ve got a big ticket idea you need money to fund that…that as they say, is a story for later in the year, all things being equal 🙂
