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Bad drivers
One of the nicest things about being in a big city for most of the week and being able to rely on public transportation (I used BART to and from the Oakland airport) is that I didn't have to drive for a few days. It is such a relief to not have to deal with bad drivers. Within 10 minutes of me getting back into my car after the trip, I was almost hit by 2 drivers. The first driver decided he wanted to merge into me and then cut over 3 lanes. He got honked at for being an idiot. The second driver missed the big red stop sign on the entrance ramp to Pacific Highway. I saw the stop sign, saw the speed at which he was travelling, and knew he'd blow right through the stop sign. Geez. I'm not saying I'm a perfect driver, but at least I'm paying attention and try to merge without ticking off other drivers.
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Hand washing after using the bathroom
This past week while at Macworld, I saw a number of men use the restroom and then walk out without washing their hands. This is beyond disgusting; I can't understand how/why people do it when there are sinks with soap and towels right there. Some of the men were in suits. Yuck.
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Macworld - Day 3
Day 3 started out with me crashing a customer's Treo. He was complaining that the PhoneCallDB file wouldn't backup and would hang the sync. So I thought that purging the call history (which uses the PhoneCallDB database) would help out. So, I purged the call history for calls older than 1 week. His device immediately reset and then wouldn't start up again. After a few minutes, he was able to get it running again, but the phone didn't work. He kept blaming me and our software and didn't understand that his problems were most likely caused by a corrupt database which clearly (in my mind and the mind of one of my colleagues) is evident by this chain of events.
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Tech support for Sinbad
At the end of yesterday's show (6 pm), a man comes up to the booth and says that his friend, Sinbad, has a support question and wants to know if I can talk to him on the phone. He dials Sinbad, hands the phone to me and I gave Sinbad some help with his issue. Do I think it really was Sinbad? Absolutely. I know that Sinbad is a Mac user and other Mark/Space people told me he stopped by the both last year. Kind of cool talking to a celebrity and helping him with a problem; however, I was a bit nervous.