The Bleeding Edge

The fourth replacement Epson 4900 arrived Friday night. It spent the weekend in the garage, waiting for a time when I could get some help moving it. We swapped it in around noon time on Monday. It appears to work fine. I still don't have the shipping label to send back the third … [Read more...]

The box came via FedEx on Saturday afternoon. It was nice of NetSys to specify Saturday delivery at no extra charge. Inside the outer packaging were two boxes taped together, one for the local half of the network extender and the other for the remote half. Although I couldn't … [Read more...]

...and another shipping label so I can send replacement printer number three back. Stay tuned. … [Read more...]

The third replacement Epson 4900 arrived last night. It, too, had lost its pallet in shipping, and there was a bash mark in one of the upper corners of the box; fortunately, there's a foam cushion at each corner. When we opened it up this morning, the printer appeared … [Read more...]

When I was growing up, my mother told me about a headline in a London newspaper – apocryphal, I now realize – that read: "Fog in the Channel, Continent Isolated." Hold that thought. I woke up Saturday morning and grabbed my iPad to check on the news before I got out of bed. … [Read more...]