Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology culture for the Austin American-Statesman. He's worked for more than nine years at the Austin American-Statesman and edited Technopolis, the newspaper's personal tech section, and ¡ahora sí!, Austin's Spanish-language newspaper. He's been a writer and performer with Austin's award-winning Latino Comedy Project and is a contributing writer for Television Without Pity, MSNBC.com's books section and The Almost Late Show with Bobby Bones. He writes a comic strip, "Space Monkeys!" with his brother, Pablo, and lives in New Braunfels with his wife and three technologically savvy cats.
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By Omar Gallaga
| Friday, February 9, 2007, 10:55 AM
Consumerist.com is running a letter from a Biddeford, Maine, reader who says his house burned down and that the probable cause of the fire was a Dell Inspiron 1200.
Of course, you can’t expect Dell to instantly address an incident where there may be some doubt as to whether its product had anything to do with a fire, but if the story’s legit, the loss of a 130-year-old ranch home and all of the family’s worldly possessions might be worth some investigation. Especially after last year’s overheating battery fiasco.
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