My mom tells me Mercury is in retrograde whenever my gadgets fail me. Mercury must be in retrograde all the time! Either that, or I need to replace my mobile phone. It’s a Motorola V400, and seemed a nice upgrade from my older Samsung. The camera feature is absolutely useless, but the phone itself seemed pretty decent at first. <\/p>\n
Now the latch sensor is broken, so half the time it can’t tell whether it’s open or closed, and when I try to answer a call, it will frequently hang up on me, so I have to go to the trouble of calling the person back, or waiting for them to leave a voicemail. Yuck! <\/p>\n
Our 1st-generation ipod, now about 3 years old I think, has started to flake out on me as well. The headphones take a lot of fiddling to get both ears working; I probably crimped the cable pulling them in and out of the little case I use when I’m traveling. This morning when I tried to plug it in to the stereo, the buttons wouldn’t respond either on battery or plugged in to the AC adaptor. I tried it on the firewire port of Pismo right afterwards and no luck there either. I left it on the AC while I was out today, so maybe it will have caught its second wind by the time I get home. If not, it’s going under the putty knife tomorrow to see whether it’s the battery or the firewire port, both of which should be treatable illnesses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My mom tells me Mercury is in retrograde whenever my gadgets fail me. Mercury must be in retrograde all the time! Either that, or I need to replace my mobile phone. It’s a Motorola V400, and seemed a nice upgrade … Continue reading