Thank you, Taiwan.... NOT

In one of the ventures I was involved with recently, I had to get myself a laptop that would be convenient to carry. I got an MSI Wind. An absolutely gorgeous piece of work. It weighs less than two pounds and is about as powerful as my Desktop used to be 5 years ago.

I was so impressed, that when I moved to the next venture and needed to leave the wind behind, I simply bought another one (they're dirt cheap, did I mention?).

There was something weird about this laptop. It got warm much faster than the previous one did. I thought this was due to the larger battery, but after a few days I noticed that this machine was so much quieter than the previous one. I read somewhere that the newer models were indeed quieter on the fan side, but this one was a bit too quiet. Plus, the mouse pad was getting so hot that my finger would burn.

Finally, when I opened it up as part of adding more memory to it, and took a look at the fan, I found out that out of the three little sockets of the fan wire, one was slightly smaller than the rest (a plastic drip or something). Looks like the guy or girl who put it together couldn't care less about it, and they just shoved it in the slot real hard, bending one of the little iron thingys to the side, until they managed to fit it. The poor fan was not getting any electricity. I stuck a pin and widened that socket just a bit, and used the same pin to straighten the little wire, reconnected, and voila - the fan was working and the Wind no longer burns my fingers.

Now I'm really pissed at the guy or girl assembling this thing in Taiwan. I mean - I know you're getting paid peanuts, but this is my work you're talking about!! Other than burning my fingers doing what you did also means that you have shortened the life of my CPU dramatically.

Have some consideration people!!

Contact me if you happen to have an MSI wind that gets terribly hot, specially on the mouse pad side (that's where your CPU is).

I've got gmail HTML+Inline image signature working perfectly!!

Long time and a lot of effort, but there finally is a way to create nice signatures, styled with HTML, and have embedded emails in there - yes, the type of images that do not require your recipients to confirm "display images", because the embedded email is considered safe.

And it's so easy... Ready? Here goes.

1) Create the signature you like in an email client. Use outlook, thunderbird or whatever you want. Note that you don't need to create the signature as signature within the client - simply create an email that has the signature you need. You can include images from your local computer, and format it however you like.

2) Send the email to your gmail account.

3) Enabled Labs in your gmail account, and specifically enable "canned responses".

4) Open the email you've received from yourself. Start forwarding it.

5) Once forward email is open, clean up anything you don't need, and make it look like the signature of your desire.

6) Find the "canned response" link, and save the email as canned response called "signature"

That's it. From now on you can add this signature to any outgoing email by starting the email, hitting "canned response", insert->signature.

Good luck.
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