Jennifr

Computer-less.

Yesterday I went to Birmingham, in search of an Apple store to deal with my apparently faulty magnasafe charger (The light wasn’t staying on and it was charging at reduced power) for my nearly-a-year-old-and-hence-end-of-warranty Mac Book Pro. After raiding the Internet for information, I discovered that it was a common occurrence. It was either that, or the whole bloody thing melted.

I had my appointment with the ”Genius Bar” in the Apple Store at the BullRing at 12.20 and by 12.30 I was issued with a shiny new macbook air charger.

I later went to wetherspoons for Free Wi-fi and cheap coffee and to wait for Stuart to finish lecturing. I sat at the window and ran the laptop off its battery. Stuart called me and said he was going to be late so I moved to an area with a plug-socket and continued to muck around on the net for a while. When he arrived at 4pm, he asked me if I managed to get it fixed. Upon glancing down, I noticed that the light was off again - rendering the problem the mac, not the charger.

Reluctantly, I returned to the Apple Store. Deep down I know they were going to take it off me to be fixed. Which they did. And I won’t have a computer for 5 to 7 working days. Something I don’t think I’ve experienced for a good 5-7 years. Bummer. I know I’ve only been macless for a total for 3 days in 3 years after last years unfortunate incident with the milk-hitting-the-keyboard of my old powerbook. Before that I had a battered, sticker-covered Acer that was nicked when I was asked a mate to remove my dataz from it to put on my powerbook. Pfft.

I am interested in how I will “cope”. Last night I read myselfto sleep (took about 2 hours to feel sleepy enough) - and I am using the university computers just now. I hope that the sheer boredom of not having untapped internet and computer will coax me into being more productive. Luckily I’m working tonight - so no sitting in my room, internetless/dvdless/musicless and most importantly, moneyless.

It might make me a better person. Or it might make me completely indifferent person who just prefers having a computer to not having a computer when I am living in a carpark and have no disposable income to speak off. Who knows?

ETA:I am looking of a way I could get my old flickr account deleted. It was attached to my old btinternet.com email address that I was associated with Flickr when Yahoo! purchased it a few years ago. My caffeinebomb at btinternet.com email address was deleted last yeat due to me not having a btinternet account anymore (I had it in my name when I had a bt line in 2005 - which I later cancelled when I moved out that flat and the email address stuck for a while) Btyahoo emailed me occasionally to say that I wasn’t allowed one anymore and they would delete it unless I associated my account with a btyahoo! pay and go internet account (no way of doing that) - and in the end they deleted it. I had paid for my Flickr account in July 2006 and I was going to renew it last year when I discovered I was locked out (because I now had to use my caffeinebomb @btinternet.com address to log in). Now I wish to delete the photographs (or at least make them private) and after emailing both yahoo and flickr and getting NO help what-so-ever, I am back to square one. Does anyone have any ideas what my next step should be? Yahoo! blame Flickr and Flickr blame Yahoo! - I blame them all for being a bit sh*te and should have thought of this when they started deleting email addresses and merging accounts willy-nilly.

- Jay Jay