Everybody’s talking ‘bout the new sound, funny but[t]. It’s still
rock and roll to me. It’s especially funny if you can sound
exasperated and lisp, sort of like Napolean Dynamite meets Butthead.
I was recently contacted by a childhood friend whom I remember fondly
for his Butthead impressions. He’s the first friend or foe to find me
through my website, although I suspect he won’t be the last. Lately
I’ve had an increasing number of where-are-they-now conversations,
even with friends who typically don’t care where “they” ended up. I
think we may be hitting the age when that sort of thing becomes
common.
Anyway if you’ve wondered about where Sean/Christopher/Jonathan Fallon
or Paul/Jeff Chenkus are now, check out their tech news blog
at nerdapproved.com.
Some time ago, I wrote about my Canon A70
digital camera failing, and the subsequent
replacement adventures I went through. It turns out I wasn’t the only
one, the problem was quite widespread and affected several
manufacturers. The fiasco is documented
in
excruciating detail at
imaging-resource.com,
and Canon has published a service notice on
the
A70 product page.
The short of it is that Canon is offering to repair affected cameras
at no charge regardless of warranty status. Call them up, mention the
service notice and that you’d like a free CCD evaluation. They’ll ask
you to go through some troubleshooting steps and if it looks like you
have a bad CCD they’ll fix it for free (even covering shipping costs
in both directions, which never happens).
I’m very impressed with how Canon has handled this. I experienced
short hold times, and got no hassle from the phone techs. I was
assured that the evaluation and shipping would be free even if the
factory techs found that my camera’s problem wasn’t covered by the
service notice, so I didn’t feel nervous about sending it in at all.
It took about two weeks to get my camera back in good repair, and I
think they fixed a slight mechanical problem with the lens cover for
free as well. It’s great when a company takes a bad situation like
this and turns it into an opportunity to provide great customer
service. Kudos to Canon.
Anyway, now I have an extra camera. I think that the A70 will be
handed down to Fio, so he can continue to develop
his film portfolio.
The more avid readers among you may have noticed that Hal’s posts have
disappeared. It would appear that he was too honest for his own good,
and he has chosen to self-censor rather than offend those who inspired
him. We’ll all have to look forward to the book.
…is a very very very fine house. There are, in fact two cats in the
yard, although neither of them are mine. Lots of folks haven’t seen my
place even though I’ve lived here almost a year, so now you can
experience the experience of the comfort of my own home without
leaving the comfort of your own home. It’s like magic.
I’m going to attempt to make the transition from solo to group
publication. Hal is the first additional contributor, and has already
begun titillating audiences with the elegant writing style and unique
perspective given voice is his recent post (yes, this thing is on).
Things will be shifting around in the next couple weeks as I do some
house cleaning and make the technical changes necessary to support
more writers. If this experiment is successful, we may gather more
interested folk in exactly the way that a rolling stone fails to
gather moss.
Keep your eyes peeled…
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about exif-touch.