My faithful 128MB CF card has just 'retired' itself. Last night, I took some shots to accompany a review I'm writing for Happy Palm. This morning, I tried to insert the card into the reader and it wouldn't push home. I retracted the card and the two halves of the case came apart. Bum. After a session with a tube of SuperGlue, all looked to be ok but, even with a little gentle persuasion, it was still not seating properly. A look inside the card reader, which is front-mounted in my tower, showed a bent connector pin, which I suspect was caused by glue-blocked hole. Judicious tweaking with the plastic toothpick from my trusty Swiss Army Knife soon had the pin back in alignment but the card still wouldn't push home. Not wanting to risk knackering my reader anymore than I had already, I stuck my bottom lip out and clicked over to dabs.com and bought another, along with some CD-RWs. And folks say that home computing isn't sexy and exciting - pah.
For the geeks out there who still have room on their belts despite carrying their PDA, pager, triband GPRS enabled video camera phone, Rayban case, Ventolin inhaler and adrenaline shot, I found this little object of desire on the Victorinox site.
Posted by bignoseduglyguy at February 17, 2004 12:08 PM | TrackBack