Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Good news on the Treo front after emailing handspring at their service centre in Norwich. Chris promised to get it fixed, and he did. received a bright shiny new Treo270 serial 102.004 today. So will defintely be buying Treo600 but the contract will not be with O2. Also just amazing to hoysync it back into my laptop, workPC and homePC so all the addresses and diary dates are once again beautifully in sync.

Wow this personal networking that ecademy has set up really works, within two hours of posting on my ecademy blog I received phone calls emails etc all very relevant with folks who had contacts in exactly the right places. Hope my Nick and his www.baboongear.com really seize the opportunities and go for it. Oh! and if you are bi-lingual French English want to help out with selling in French ski resorts then get in contact with him at baboongear.com!

Interesting site here for checking out obscure english words and phrases. However, no mardy or nesh from my childhood in the midlands.

A bad day for my Treo yesterday – its aerial snapped away from the casing! also was the last day of my O2 contract, which included insurance! Aghh.

Rang the so called member services number for O2 on 0870 444 3333 to be left hanging on for 30 minutes (you would thing that a telecomms company would just say please type in your number and we will call you back – some hope they must make a fortune from lousy company service!) to be told – insurance is only dealt with on weekdays.

So today being Monday, I try again, usual wait and then “OK I will transfer you to insurance service”, after 30 minutes gave up – so much for customer service!.

So I emailed handspring at a-novoradiophone.co.uk, within 10 minutes Chris rang back, very concerned, yes he would try and repair it under warranty (lets hope so £100 otherwise) and he would courier a carton etc over. What wonderful service, he should have it tomorrow so fingers crossed.