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I’m back, baby!
Today is my official first day back on the Statesman side covering technology again. (Yep, the past two and a half years of blogging “Digital Savant” were just for fun. Seriously.)
Where have I been? I’ve been editing Cox’s Spanish-language newspaper, ¡ahora sí!, which was incredibly rewarding and got me out of the main newsroom for a few years. Huh. I think I’m going to have to change the text over on the left side of this page … And that muy-serious mugshot has got to go.
I’ll be covering technology, but my hope is that I won’t just be writing about video games and gadgets. I hope to cover how technology affects culture and what it does to us and to our subcultures (both good and bad). I also plan to write about the evolution of bagel technology in all its forms. We will have a perfect bagel in Austin one day! This I swear!
My first day back involved an ergonomic keyboard from 1985 (you don’t even want to know; the thing looked someone eviscerated an old Commodore Vic-20), not having my phone number moved over yet (refreshing, actually; I didn’t have to answer it all day) and a new chair that tried to tip over and kill me every time I sat down. Can you get workers comp if your chair causes you to tip forward and hit your head on the desk?
The techs at work managed to get my (less 80s-style) keyboard to work. I swapped my chair out, rescuing the one that had carefully molded itself to my hindquarters for years. And I spent the morning adjusting the settings on my new monitor, re-doing all the bookmarks that mysteriously disappeared and tweaking Firefox to do my browsing bidding.
All in all it was kind of a fun morning and now that things are comfy in my new digs, I’m off to the races. Now that I’m no longer editing (my proposed new job title: Writer/Reporter of Things), expect me to write so much you’ll be incredibly tired of hearing/reading my voice.
You’ll be all, “Dude, shut up already,” and I’m gonna be like, “No, dude you have to hear about this Web site I just found,” and you’ll be like, “Well, all right, but just this one time,” and I’ll be like, “See?! Check it,” and you’ll be like, “THAT ROCKS!” and I’ll smile and go, “Totally.”
It’s going to rock so hard, y’all.
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By Rich
December 13, 2006 8:01 PM | Link to this
Since you are in the world of Dell, Inc. I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I ordered in November, from Dell online, two Nintendo DS Lite games that were to be my two kids Christmas presents. Since that time the order has been backed up to after Christmas now. Dell called me (from India) to advise me of the original delay and guaranteed me that I would have them shipped no later than December 13th. Upon checking my order status I found that the delay (the fourth delay) will force the items to be shipped on the 22nd of December for delivery from December 25-28. Now, we all know that is not going to happen. Nobody delivers on Christmas. So I called Dell and after speaking to another rep in India I was transferred to a supervisor. Well, 45 minutes later the phone is still wringing to get to the supervisor-literally. Does anyone know how I can get ahold of someone in the U.S. with Dell and get something taken care of? I have purchased multiple computers from Dell and MP3 players, gaming systems, and this is the first issue I have had. If you don't have something,don't offer it for sale and hope you get it in. Now my kids won't have their #1 wish list item and it is too late to find them in the stores. How can I get ahold of Dell in the U.S. Please, someone help me!
ANSWER FROM OMAR: How about it, folks? Can anyone help Rich?