Hugo’s blog

A restaurant around Paris which looks very good: Jean Chauvel’s Les Magnolias.

Ha! Seasons 5 and 6 of Seinfeld are coming out on DVD!

15 days after asking for my PowerBook to be collected for repair, I still have not managed to have anybody pick it up. This time (3^rd attempt), the box was delivered to the wrong person at the wrong address. Thank you, UPS (just when I thought that TNT were terrible). What will happen next? You’ll see in our next episode.

• Tuesday 1 November: after 45 days of owning a PowerBook, I get I/O errors. I call AppleCare and after making me reinstall, they agree that my disk needs to be changed.
• Wednesday 2 November: I call some Apple repair stores in Paris, hoping for a quick repair; it will take at least 10 days to deal with my Mac; I decide to call AppleCare again to have my laptop picked up by UPS
• Friday 3 November: UPS comes to my home, with a box for… an iPod; I refuse it, call AppleCare again; they send another box by UPS
• Friday 10 November: I receive an email from AppleCare; they are saying that TNT tried to deliver the box and failed and that I need to reschedule with TNT; I contact TNT through the Web: they don’t know about the number AppleCare gave me
• Monday 14 November: I finally manage to talk to TNT on the phone; TNT Sweden, that is, as I’m in Sweden for a few days and they want me to talk to TNT Sweden; the box is on its way to Holland, without my laptop in it; I call AppleCare again, and it seems that they have had a problem with their system and never sent the box(?!); they are sending me a new box

To be continued. I will soon reach the point where my Mac will have been more time in my possession broken than in working state.

I went to see dEUS at Le Grand Rex last night. It was a private concert organized by OUI FM.

It was a good concert, but I think that I am having issues getting over the new line-up in the band. The background vocals are just not as… rough, I guess.

Also, while I think that the new album is a good album, I think it’s somewhat dissatisfying for a dEUS album. To me, it’s lacking some of the wildness of the previous ones.

One could see how Fell Off The Floor or Suds & Soda had much more energy both on stage and in the audience than the new songs, and I don’t think that it’s just because they’re newer.

So it was an OK concert, although a little short. The set list was:

1. Pocket Revolution
2. Cold Sun
3. Instant Street
4. Fell off the Floor, Man
5. Stop-Start Nature
6. The Real Sugar
7. Theme from Turnpike
8. If You Don’t Get What You Want
9. Nothing Really Ends
10. Bad Timing
11. Suds & Soda

I had been warned about the reliability of PowerBooks before buying mine. I thought: well, I had issues with all my PC laptops, I don’t think it can be any worse. Well, it turns out that I’m up for an “I told you so” card from my sysadmin. It took less than 45 days for my hard drive to have issues. It’s got to be a record.

After upgrading to OS X 10.4.3, my Mac rebooted and never came back. After rebooting and pressing ⌘-V, I had the displeasure of seeing “disk0s3: I/O error“, a message that I have unfortunately seen too many times on too many different computers. An fsck told me that my volume appeared to be OK. I beg to differ!

So I inserted my AppleCare CD and I’m going to let it do its thing and bring me the bad news tomorrow morning when I wake up.