More Mac Crash Experience
I just had my MacBook Pro do a spontaneous, unrequested shutdown in the middle of my work. Yikes! 3:20 in the afternoon.
Luckily, it came right back up when I hit the power key. Time to do backups and possibly hit the Apple store!
My Mac Crash Experiences
I read Dave Winer’s storys about his Macs and how much they suck. It’s so strange to me because I’ve had very good experiences with my Macs. I had an iMac G3 400 that I ran OS X on and I don’t remember it ever crashing. I bought one of the last G5 iMacs to replace it and it’s never crashed. I bought a MacBook Pro last month and it had one weird night when it shut itself off twice with no logs, no nothin’. So, there’s a counterpoint. I wonder if there are others out there.
Isn’t there some kind of principle that the loudest people commenting on a product are the ones that are having a bad experience? I know Dave understands this, for sure.
More Trouble Subscribing in NewsRiver
So I try to subscribe to the Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab RSS feed and I get the following error message: “Can’t create item ‘aggregatorData.services.http://feeds.gesturelab.com/gesturelab.compilation.itemHistory.’ because ” is an illegal name.” Even more curious.
And, in that quoted e-mail message, the single quotes are actually double quotes in the real thing. One of those weird things about documentation.
Trouble Subscribing to Tailrank Using NewsRiver
When I try to subscribe to TailRank’s RSS feed, I get the following error message: “Poorly formed XML text, string constant is improperly formatted. (At character #507)” Curious. And the subscription never shows up in my subscriptions list.
