Tales of a Ubuntu salesman
I have now been fighting with Acer / Packard Bell to try and get my Fisher Price kiddies first laptop repaired. At least that’s how it feels, having owned this piece of junk for 8 months now it first gained a very minor fault at 4 hours and now sports 2 faulty [...]
Thu, May 9 2013 » Complaints, Ubuntu » No Comments
Currently in the midst of moving both home and business I am currently exhausted in the extreme. Most of the past week has been spent decorating and it was not possible to attend all the business biscotti meetings I wanted to. However the Slough meeting was rather interesting and for the second time I found [...]
Sat, April 14 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Well we’ve made it, despite the fuel shortages we’re at the fair today! I can’t help but be baffled though by the lorry driver I was acosted by this morning as I filled up with an almighty £10. According to him, in all seriousness it’s people like me who caused the jams by only filling [...]
Sat, March 31 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I knew that what happened during the course of the day would have a dramatic effect on my fortunes for the foreseeable future. It’s MOT week again and it’s come around all too quickly, landing on a week I really can’t afford any unexpected issues as it would undo all my hard work over the [...]
Sun, March 11 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Wow, what a day! I started work at 6am and have only just stopped now at 10:48pm. Since I got home after the fair today I have been tidying and decorating in preparation for a landlord’s inspection tomorrow. Which leads me to wonder why paint only has a finite quantity when being applied to the [...]
Sun, February 26 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
So the good news today is that the customer interested in buying the HP laptop that commited suicide during the last computer fair wasn’t put off by the unfortunate timing. After a motherboard transplant I delivered the notebook to him and his payment has made last weekend’s fair the most profitable yet. There are however [...]
Thu, February 23 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
In the week leading up to the TCR fair I found myself feeling increasingly excited about what this sale represents. Things are starting to fall into place and this week starts to see the emergence of what you may call a finished product. Thanks as much to fortune as to good planning today I had [...]
Sun, February 19 2012 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
This should be a rather tricky report tonight, full of promise and frustration both at the same time. I’m not sure if it’s the weather, or the economy, or something else entirely, but this weekend has been extremely hard going and I know that I am not the only trader who has struggled to turn [...]
Sun, February 12 2012 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I must start with an apology for not attending the Bristol fair this week. Due to a combination of poor driving conditions and a severe lack of sleep this was not possible. Due to idiots getting in my way and causing me to stop in the snow (and then being unable to get going again) [...]
Sun, February 5 2012 » Uncategorized » 4 Comments
I read several posts recently on the popularity of Linux and how it seems to be enjoying unusually large gains in user numbers at the moment. It appears that some time between August and October something has changed which has attracted a large number of new users to the platform. Nobody seems to be able [...]
Wed, February 1 2012 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
