Dinner with Jason

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View from breck hike

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My friend Micah is on a world-wide quest to become closely associated with the word “douche bag”. As of today he’s #156 on Google when searching under that term. Even though I know that my mom is reading this, I still think it’s important to help my friends.

So, Micah, you Douche Bag, here you go. I’m praying to the Google Gods for you.

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Since I became a Mac user about two years ago, I’ve had basically zero problems with my Macbook Pro. It just works.

However, when I was on vacation in Oahu last week, I installed an update to the OS (via the automatic software update feature) and the machine quit booting and started complaining of a crash in Spotlight. Basically, it wouldn’t boot up and it was unusable.

I tried a bunch of stuff on my own based on articles that I could find on the Apple support site and elsewhere. I also ran Disk Warrior to try to correct the problem myself. Nothing was working - and I was “without laptop.” Yikes!

I was returning to Boulder from Oahu yesterday, so before I left to catch my flight I made an appointment at the Apple store in Boulder at the Genius Bar for 8pm last night (Friday). I had no idea what to expect, but figured I’d try it out. So far, so good - it was nice that I could get an appointment for the next day, even at night when it was very convenient.

I got there a few minutes early, and they called me right on time at 8pm. I explained what had happened, and the guy got right to work on my Macbook Pro. He had the ability to easily do a network boot from my machine, and that included all sorts of diagnostic tools he could use. Within 3 minutes, he was rerunning the cumulative O/S updates for Leopard. This took about 10 minutes to complete, and my machine started working just fine again. I left the Apple store by 8:30 - no charge.

This is great customer service.

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Jil is now officially addicted to surfing.

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Princeville

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I’ve been traveling quite a bit lately. So, I’ve just added my Dopplr account to my sidebar and my facebook profile. If you’re my friend, you can see my upcoming travel schedule (dates are only approximate to the public). It’s a neat way to potentially meet up with others you know while you travel.

If you use Dopplr (and know me), drop me a Dopplr friend request.

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Tweetstats excels at reporting the very, very arcane.

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Andrew holding rosie at butterfly pavillion

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