posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

I purchased an iPad back in April.  I’ve never owned my own Mac, iPod, or iPhone, and until then had never used iTunes.  Upon unpacking the iPad there were three instructions, paraphrased: 1. Download and Install iTunes. 2. Connect the iPad. 3.  Follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes to set up iPad. Unfortunately, it didn’t work as expected.  I installed iTunes, plugged in the iPad, and waited.  And waited.  And waited.  Windows XP apparently recognized [...Read more...]

posted by steve | Category: Random Rants

As I sit on hold with AT&T today (and sit and sit), every 30 seconds a recording keeps stating “Thank you for continuing to hold.  Your call is very important to us, a representative will be with you shortly.”  I can’t help but think that if my call was very important to them, they would have a representative actually answer it.