Well, I’m still waiting on getting my 20” BenQ monitor back. It’s been in under warranty since 29/8 - and still no word on when I’ll get it back (it was supposed to be back on my desk weeks ago!). Maxtor sent me a ‘refurbished’ hard drive for the warranty replacement of a 160Gb SATA drive - that just fills me with confidence. The Digium TDM400P is back in the Asterisk VoIP server and running nicely.

Hopefully, it will be the last thing I have to warranty in quite some time - of course the whole Apple Superdrive screwup will guarantee that it isn’t - but I won’t be surprised if I have to sit down when they finally get their act together and tell me what they plan to do.

Never, ever go see this movie. Unless of course you want to see Paris Hilton die :). If you do happen to come across this movie, save yourself a whole heap of time and sanity and just skip to 72 minutes into the movie, and watch the next 5 minutes. It really is the highlight of the movie!

I’m now in the waiting time to get all of the replacement hardware that I’ve returned under warranty in the past few weeks. I’ve had to send back 2 x 160Gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 x Digium TDM400P VoIP FXO and 1 x BenQ 20.1” LCD screen.

The fun continues. The hard drives started pulling read errors and on a full format came up with bad sectors - very bad for data - even though they were less than 18 months old! The FXO card developed a fault where it wouldn’t pass audio, and the LCD screen developed a couple of bright pixels.

This means I’m currently stuck using my trusty 12” PowerBook G4 (even with the dodgy Superdrive!) until I get my screen back. When will it end :)

If you know either of them, you’ll know that Tyson has now married Bec! This makes it the only time in the history of the Clugg family that there have been three Mrs Clugg’s alive.

After being in the bridal party and having a great weekend, my congrats go to them both and I wish that they will have a long and happy life together.

I think this was the most digital camera aware wedding that I have ever heard of - with well over 3Gb of photos being taken throughout the day. I know that this is at least 750 photos that I have access to, and many, many more that I will never see!

As posted on my petition, I have sent yet another email to Apple Australias Hardware Manager, Geoff Winder.

I don’t know if I will actually get a reply this time, as it’s been well over a month since my original email, and weeks since a follow up went unanswered. I have also tried calling Geoff, but only manage to get his voicemail.