Archive for July, 2012

GE spotting : @NY one perspective from the Statue of Liberty

location: ~40°42’6.77"N ~74° 1’7.14"W

How good was Dyson’s support: immaculate!

One week or so ago, I contacted Dyson’s support and posted about it. The time has come to answer my own question, and the answer could hardly be more positive: in 1 week time, all the problems I mentioned were solved, with Dyson sending replacement parts without any cost and always with low latency feedback. [...]

GE spotting: Hockenheim racing circuit

location: 49°19’49.17"N 8°34’18.52"E

GE spotting : Hawaii "urban to meet mountain"

location: 20°54’42.82"N 156°30’15.77"W

Microsoft Help Viewer : fixing some problems

I recently had some problems with Microsoft Help Viewer, the app that for example integrates with Visual Studio and provides contextual help about keywords when you press F1. The first problem was that despite being properly configured to use offline files previously downloaded, the app refused to work with such contents, arguing that "a local [...]

Movies I recently watched

Vuosaari (2012) / Naked Harbour http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787767/ Vuosaari is entertaining and manages to capture some of Finland’s social traces. It remembered me Robert Altman’s Shortcuts, but the shorts don’t necessarily flow to a common intersection. It is funny, it can be sexy and it is different, something ever more necessary to justify some couch potato time. [...]

Hawaii volcanoes, near Naalehu

location: 19°36’27.14"N 155°26’51.83"W

How good is Dyson’s support?

Since 2008 that Dyson is my only choice for vacuum cleaners, but their devices are not flawless and three units gathered some problems that I’ve lived with, until this day. Today I used their support form http://www.pt.dyson.com/contactus/default.asp requesting solutions, under the warranty protection to the following issues: (1) cracks on a DC29′s main part for [...]

GE spotting : Takhini river about to meet Yukon river

location: 60°50’12.86"N 135°11’41.06"W

GE spotting : really remote places to live – Haines Junction

location: ~60°45’9.08"N ~137°30’37.59"W

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