June 2011 – Toyservice.ro

Magnetic bracelet – February 2009

She arrived in time – such a small girl – holding its parts carefully, so that instead of receiving the string/bracelet in small pieces, what I received is what you can see here (still threaded).
We wondered: bracelet or beads, yet we reached no conclusion… Eventually, we called it bracelet because, functionally speaking, (the girl was wearing the bracelet) that’s what it was.

History of the defect / accident

Apparently, these gewgaws are not meant to live more than a couple of weeks maybe. It’s a good thing that those who make them don’t make bridges and airplanes… Continue reading

Faulty laptop video output – January 2009

One evening, this friend of mine called in for an emergency: there was this laptop, neither very new, nor extremely neat that had been acting up for a couple of days and needed to be taken care of. What I found out was something both random and repeatable: the systematic disruption of the image to the external monitor, or of the independent colors.

What happened?

Most owners strongly deny any “responsibility” for the cause of this defect – and this friend of mine made no exception to the rule. However, when asked if he uses a second monitor, he said he did, when he was playing. Continue reading “Faulty laptop video output – January 2009”