from ActiveDen:
Client: “[Indian outsourcer] says he can do this site for $200. Why should I go with you?”
Me: “Has he done any work for you in the past?”
Client: Yeah! He did [Other Site] for me.
[I load the other site]
Me: “The entire site’s done in Flash.”
Client: “Huh?”
Me: “It’s a site for iPhone users.”
Client: “I know. Cool, huh?”
Me: “It’s a site for iPhone users… none of whom can see it…”
Client: “Huh?”
Me: “The iPhone doesn’t support Flash.”
Client: “Well it looks fine on my PC!”
Me: “Do you have an iPhone?”
Client: “No.”
Me: “…”
Client: “Tell you what, I’m just gonna go with [Indian outsourcer]. He seems like he knows what he’s doing and I’m not sure you do.”
Me: “Have fun.”
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I’ve changed my language plugin. Consequence is, that the current content is messed up. Will tidy things up…
It happened: my Macbook Pro is broken. The screen that is. Never had any problems with carrying laptops in my old and trusted ASUS-briefcase. But the Macbook Pro showed up with a broken screen yesterday… Kind of fragile stuff. Today I visited a official Apple Service Center in Rotterdam in my lunchbreak. They told me that this is not covered by warranty. The price to fix this? A stunning 758 euros without 19% VAT. The repair will last al least 10 working days. But more likely 15.
I left the shop astonished and determined to solve it in another way, To make a long story short: I ordered a new screen via Ebay. Price: 256,98 Canadian dollars. Including shipment. That is 161,01 euros. The manual that tells in a step-by-step way how to replace the display was downloaded via Powerbookmedic.com This includes details photos on how to do the job. I guess it will take me a maximum of 3 hours, probably less. I’ll keep you all posted on how this story ends. But I guess I’m in for a very satisfying solution (fingers crossed!)
UPDATE – FRIDAY AUGUST 8TH, 2008
The screen arrived! That is rather rapid: ordered Tuesday and delivered Friday from www.screencountry.com in Canada! This evening I am invited to fly with the Dutch Airforce – in a balloon. But otherwise I would have rebuild the MacBook Pro this evening. I’ll do that tomorrow. When all works out, I am done for a bit more than 160 euros. Within a week! Via the official channels the situation would differ quite a bit: at least 750 euros and a waiting time of two – probably three – working weeks…
FINAL UPDATE:
Did it. Just a day after receiving the screen from Canada, I took the thing apart and fixed the screen. Geeting it back together was probably harder than taking it apart… Nice!
It has been too long ago since I blogged here. A lot of different things kept me busy. Not that I had no stuff to blog about. It has been a rather inspiring and thriving period… While catching up, I had to delete another 545 spam comments. Askimet told me that:
Akismet has caught 7,531 spam for you since you first installed it. Now that’s what I call a blessing. I dare not think about the effort it would have been to manually delete al that crap…
Just picking up the pace again. Like nothing happened. I just finished my presentation for tommorow. I will be talking about “The Future of Direct Marketing” on the National Marketingday that will be held at Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Just before that I finished the recording for tonight’s PitchTalk at Het Gesprek. It will be aired around 20.30 hour. Ronnie Overgoor and I had Durk-Jan de Bruin as our guest. He is the founder of www.startpagina.nl and is now busy with www.mijnwinkel.nl A very interesting and nice talk indeed.
Finally I found a plugin that was rather easy to install. So now DR | ADV is bi-lingual. I will not translate all the content at once. But once in a while I will translate the postings to Dutch. New postings will be in both languages from scratch.
