Friday, May 23, 2003

Lucky Break

As I mentioned earlier my big camera had broken - I was waiting on a new battery hoping that was the problem (it had jammed mid bulb time shot.) The battery came this morning so I eagerly plopped it in the camera - clicked - nothing. The bugger was still locked up.

Numbers started flying through my head, pinch a bit from here, loan a bit from there, buy a new camera. Then something else popped in, a memory of something I read, a last ditch attempt to get a busted hard drive working.

Resigned, I adapted the method to work with a camera. I removed the lens, held it about 20 CMs of the floor and dropped it.

Guess what - it worked. Its purring like its old self again. Typical in it! Mrs Dio was surprised and remarked how typical a bloke thing it was - design all that technology then the only way you can fix it is by dropping it.

On a broken theme, the comment board has been knackered, don't know why, as well as this page having loading issues... I'm hoping it resolves itself.

I'm enjoying a pint or two of cider this evening. My first drink in 3 weeks. Boy does it taste good!

Posted by Dio Bach at 23:57

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