Received Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:01:08 -0700 from Jeff Seal <jseal [at] cirtesinsurance [dot] com>

Bob's Letter of complaint to Apple - Love it.

Dear Ladies and Gentelmen,
my iPod nano gave me a lot of pleasure for several days. But then it
started to look as if it just came from a war. Not even a cellphone-
display of mine spending his whole life in a pocket ever looked that
bad.

After about 2 weeks the fun really started:
Under the menu marking of the Clickwheels it felt, as if the
underlying switch would become detached. Just by moving your finger
without pressure you could feel something and also hear a "Plop" (no,
no sound from the internal speaker, but a real mechanical sound).
Shortly thereafter it also started under the "backwards"-marking.

After a small problem (My adress in the USA couldn't be located.
Maybe because I live in Germany) my iPod was sent to Holland and
returned pretty quickly (serial-number: XXXXXXXXX - case-number:
XXXXXXXXXX)
...in the same condition it left...

OK, calling the hotline again and asking if that problem was not
worth repairing. Was hard to tell by the standard-letter that came
back with the iPod.
The nice callcenter-guy (wanted to yell at him, but it was not his
fault) talked to his superior and then told me that that should be
right. Cause the functionallity was still given.

Meanwhile it also plops under the play/pause-marking.

I could now buy that AppleCare-thingy for 59 Euros and send the iPod
to Holland each week. That would be fun, wouldn't it?
But to be honest I'm totally fed up and don't want to tell myself
stuff like "hey, that's not that bad" anymore. Just like:

• the inhuman noise of my G4's fan
• the ghost-images of my 17" display
• the horrible "screaming" ob my G5 when the graphic-card has some
work to do
• the dead pixel of my 23"
• the creaking sound of the MightyMouse

Cause for me it's an optical and haptic worst-case-scenario and I
don't want to deal with it anymore and I'm also tired of being put off.

So here I'm sending you the device - an guess where you can put it in
now.
Lubricant is attached.

With kind regards,
Bob.=

Received Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:50:58 -0700 from Jeff Seal <jseal [at] stochasticaphelion [dot] com>

Halloween Pumpkin

Received Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:01:18 -0700 from Jeff Seal <jseal [at] stochasticaphelion [dot] com>

Serfdom - The moving process.

No longer a part of the land-holding-gentry. I have sold my house
officially last friday. All the paperwork is done. It should fund
today. I'll rent back my house for the month of November while the
guy in my new house gets out. I march closer to the move. Really,
moving is going to suck. After 7 years of crramming stuff in our
existing home. Now I have to dig it all out and move in the cold.

Received Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:36:26 -0700 from Jeff Seal <jseal [at] stochasticaphelion [dot] com>

Frankenstein CSS

So I downloaded the sample files from http://www.csszengarden.com/
and took my first crack at styling the thing with all CSS
positioning. Frankenstein at best. Pile of ghost poo really. Thus,
I don't post it. But I will start anew.

Received Mon, 31 Oct 2005 07:29:47 -0700 from Jeff Seal <jseal [at] stochasticaphelion [dot] com>

Bob's NanoPod Suppository - Lubricant Included

Bob pings me first thing this morning, furious at Apple and his
stupid iPod Nano. I guess it was not working properly so he sent it
in for repairs. Something is wrong with the click wheel and it
scrapes. Irritating and obviously not the intended proper working
condition. However, they sent it back after a week or two with a note
saying something like, "this iPod is still fully functional" and so
they did nothing to fix it. Bob is so pissed! He quickly drafted a
new message for them that explained his frustration, and at the end
of the message it reads:

"So here I send you the iPod - Guess where you can put it now?"
Lubricant Included.

LOOOOOL!


So here is a pic of what Bob sent back to Apple Germany, and a pic of
the confused delivery guy he made pose with the parcel.