Archive for December, 2008

Yesterday, I close the lid on my first generation MacBook Pro, unplug it, pack it in my bag and head home from another long day at work. I make a pit stop at the Salon des Métiers D’Arts at Place Bonaventure to pick up some christmas gifts. I feel the urge to check on my finances, so I take the laptop out of the bag, pop it open and behold, nothing. Battery’s dead. I figure, I must have unplugged it somehow while working, or it must have failed to suspend properly, and wasted the entire battery on a kernel panic. This happens sometimes when the Cisco VPN Client kext is loaded and active.

But alas, no. I plug it in this morning, and bang:

Again, for those not speaking french, it means “battery not charging”.

This is the third battery that dies with this laptop. If the laptop broke down, I’d understand. It has a bit over three years of age, which is pretty much the average life span of a laptop-you-carry-around-every-day. But the battery is still young. Bleh.

ADDENDUM (24 mar 2009): I just noticed I sound like an elitist douche hipster in that post. I mean, Art Salon + Apple hardware + French… Should have included more codetalk or wires as not to lose my geek street cred, yo.

I went to Arcadia a few weeks ago and this small developement company had a DS dev kit running their game demo, so I snapped a picture of it, telling myself I would post it on my blog when I got home, and then promptly forgot about it. I found the picture on my phone just now and decided to try the wordpress iPhone client. So here goes a lot of fuss over nothing.