We have two Tablet PC’s (TC1100) and we have had three round-trip HP repair trips between the two of us in the past year.

Repair trip I (December 2004)

Lyn’s TC1100 made funny hard drive noises after about 4 months of happy ownership. As she will remind me I was nagging her about doing the proper back up (before the hard drive would die) and sending it off to HP. And as I will point out to her, hers has been making the same noise for 10 months now. -LR Reluctantly, Lyn called HP, HP send a box via Purolator the next day and off it went. We were nervous, especially Lyn (mine was purring along!), since we had notyet gone through the HP repair process. We were amazed that it came back in 2 or 3 days. The HP Repair Centre for our geographical location is in Quebec. HP placed a spanking new harddrive in the TC1100 and the weird noise was gone. Lyn was happy once again. Of course all software had to be relaoded again and data needed to be transferred from our desktop via the router. Very labour-intensive. Given the 3 yr warranty there were no charges, not for the shipping or the hard drive or the labour.

West Pennant is about 40 min South of Halifax. The weather was spectacularly Nova Scotia: Winds and rains, coming and going all day long.

And here is our very good friend Tim, and his dog Simon, bravely holding the TC1100 in the midst of a forceful Maritime gale. And this is not even a rugged Tablet PC!

West Pennant vis-a-vis Halifax

A typical small Nova Scotia inlet. No wireless available!

Of course for some reason we were taking these pictures with MY tablet. Was it punishment for my insistence that we bring the tablet along for downloading photos?? But none of this weather in the end was more impressive than my dropping my tablet as I unlocked the door at home.

It still works. But don’t try to duplicate that at home! - LR 

Ah lovely Nova Scotia with unbelievable winds and whipping rain!

 
Tim on the left, TC1100 on the right. Europe straight ahead!

Fascinating article today in the NYT about "interruption science". As most of us experience every day and all day long, we get interrupted at work. Often at the end of the day you may feel like you did not accomplish much. And technology, in my experience, is the worst interruption culprit. Interruption science tries to figure out how much (or not) multi-tasking people can do and when they can be interrupted. Note the use of a Tablet PC to measure the brain activity of this Microsoft software designer.

For a full look at this article go to the NYT:
http://tinyurl.com/annu8

Shallow fog sounds so mysterious! Weather in Halifax (Nova Scotia) is a funny thing and very very local. It changes around here in a jiffy.