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January 11, 2009

There are three types of liars...

...liars, damned liars, and battery engineers.

They told me this computer's battery would last three hours.

They lied.

I charged it for two hours. It gave me five minutes.

The rarest commodity here at the Detroit Show is not optimism - it's AC power.

I'm now sitting on the floor behind a media mixing board at the Michelin booth where they have a live power strip, trying to blog for you...

Posted at 04:02 PM in 2009 Detroit auto show |

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DjDATZ

The second rarest resource at shows is Wi-fi. LOL

Posted by: DjDATZ | January 12, 2009 at 10:25 AM

Jim Kenzie

Actually, it wasn't as bad in Detroit as it usually is!

Progress?

Jim

Posted by: Jim Kenzie | January 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM

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