Jeremiah Beck\

Asus Brings the Win

Jeremiah — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:32:38 +0000

My Asus G1 laptop (probably my favorite possession) stopped working about a year after I bought it. Luckily it came with a 2 year warranty. It would boot to the G1 logo and then reboot over and over again. I called Asus and they emailed me an RMA number the same day, plus they let customers use their Fed Ex account so I didn’t have to pay for shipping. I did have to pay for a box and two rolls of bubble wrap which cost almost $30 at Fed Ex/Kinko’s. Yeah, a cardboard box and 2 rolls of plastic bubble wrap, next time I’ll get the packing materials somewhere else.

It turned out that the BIOS just needed to be updated. They also reinstalled Vista which I thought was a little odd. I haven’t made any hardware changes with Vista, but with XP all I had to do was reactivate XP after a hardware change, sometimes it wouldn’t even need to be reactivated. Maybe they were just being thorough. They did call me to get permission before reinstalling. They also glued new rubber feet on the bottom of the laptop, the original ones came off just like they’ve done with every laptop I’ve owned

I had my laptop back a week after sending it.

My New Host

Jeremiah — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:35:17 +0000

I’m hosting with Crucial now. I bought one of their Split-Shared plans. With the coupon code XBOX it was about $70 for a year of hosting. So far I’m really happy with them. There hasn’t been any downtime, bizarre miscommunications, or other surprises. It’s a really pleasant experience after my other hosts.

I did research them before signing up, but I have to admit The Crucial ~~$4000~~ $6000+ Contest was part of my motivation.

Crucial is giving away:

An Xbox 360 Elite with a Limited Edition copy of Assassin’s Creed - valued at $518
Logo Design from David Airey - valued at $1000
5 Years of Crucial’s Split Shared hosting - valued at $600
A custom WordPress theme - valued at $2120
An AdWords campaign and 12 months of hosting - valued at $1220
A website critique - valued at $620

You can have multiple entries,

You get 1 entry by subscribing to the Crucial Hosting Blog
You get 1 entry by subscribing to the Crucial Cash affiliate program
You get 1 entry by blogging about the contest plut a bonus entry for linking to both David Airy’s site and Crucial’s Split-Shared hosting page
You get 10 entries for buying a month of hosting
You get 30 entries for buying a year of hosting

There’ll be six winners and each winner will choose a prize in the order they’re drawn.

First Posts Are Hard

Jeremiah — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:36:25 +0000

This is the first post in this blog so if some tenacious reader goes through all my entries this will be the last one they come to. It seems like there should be something satisfying here. At the same time this is one of the first posts adventurous browsers who read new blogs will encounter so it should be interesting.

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