The jZone

On Wednesday this week, for no apparent reason, the battery on my three month old MacBook Pro decided to die. All of a sudden it refused to charge, reported that it had no charge, and threw all of its toys out of the pram.

I searched on the web, and found someone else had experienced the same problem.

So, first thing Thursday morning I gave Apple a call, and they agreed to send out a new battery pronto.

Yesterday, the battery arrived, and everything now seems to be back in order.

Well done Apple for such a prompt response.

My new MacBook arrived last Thursday, but I’ve been away over the weekend, and have only just managed to get online with it, so more on the MacBook later.

However, while I was away, I also took the opportunity to have a little play with iWeb, to see what its like. The results can be found here.

I don’t think I’ll be ditching Drupal just yet.

A while ago my Powerbook screen started acting up… every now and then the bottom third of the screen flickers and vanishes, and the rest of the time when the bottom third is visible, a green line a pixel wide can be seen about a third of the way from the left edge.

Unfortunately, the guarantee has just ran out, and I’ve been told it will cost about 350 pounds to replace the screen. No AppleCare.

Oh, and on top of that, I dropped it. Tonki jumped on it while it was perched on my knee.

Although it didnt have far to fall (about 2 foot max), it landed right on the corner.

It mangled the case a bit, but apart from that, you wouldnt know any different… and it is not related in any way to the screen being faulty. It was already faulty.

The worst thing is, I cant bare the idea of being without it for any amount of time, and is my main machine!!!

/sobs