Ahhh!

I moved my computer into the living room today and attached it to the television screen, I also dug up my wireless keyboard and mouse. I may have to do this more often. 

I'm a little proud of my computer, it's the first one that I built from scratch using all new and actually decent parts. I've got an Antec 900 tower, a Gigabyte EP45-DS3L Motherboard, an Intel E8400 Core 2 Duo processor @ 3.00 GHz , 8 GB of PC8500 Kingston HyperX RAM, and an EVGA nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card. It's big and lovely, and a pain to haul up and down stairs. I have a few laptops as well, I should sell two of them... I could probably get a couple hundred dollars. 

Lindsay and I were watching old episodes of CBC's Marketplace on line yesterday and there was one called “Gouged by Geeks” it was all about how on site technical service companies often do not employ technicians who are actually skilled. Of ten companies that were called, only three were able to correctly identify correctly a problem RAM stick in a bait computer. Most of them claimed that a different part was at fault, then proceeded to try to sell the “client” a whole new computer. A certain squad of geeks stood out as the worst as far as sending a salesperson rather than a technician to the house call. A company that sends nerds to your site stood out as having probably the worst service of all that we are shown, the fellow diagnosed the wrong part as failed so badly that I could scarcely believe it, then proceeded to copy all of the clients personal data to his laptop without asking permission. I was quite disgusted by the whole affair.

It actually made me feel kind of good about the company that I work for. I may not know the skills of all of our techs. But I work there, and I know that I wouldn't have misdiagnosed the problem.