Boomwave Klique iPod Touch Case review on MacTalk

http://forums.mactalk.com.au/showthread.php?p=417510

I did a bit of a review on my new iPod cover, linky above.




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My Boomwave Klique, let me show you it

Boomwave Klique
Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac

My new iPod case turned up today. Very bling with a couple of minor issues, review to come.

Updates

Qantas ended up putting my luggage in a taxi back to me maybe a day
after my last post, so thanks QF. (Wasn't your screwup).
Bag arrived with all of my stuff still in it, including DVDs, and TSA
had repacked neatly. Can't complain at this point.
I have an iPod touch case (The Ultimate Case, possibly,
pda/wallet-style) that is biding its time at the local Fedex center with
a status of "Package not due for delivery". A week without my good jeans
has given me the correct perspective on such things, and at least I know
where it is.

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21-12-07_1828.jpg
Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac

Here comes the rain again...

Crates o' bags

Got a helpful Qantas person on the phone (that's where the Tulla lost
baggage line will send you) and there are a couple of crates of bags
coming in on the QF94 today. There's bottlenecking at LAX, and your
ass on the plane is higher priority than your baggage.

He didn't *really* know where my baggage was but at least he was
sympathetic, so I'll wait and see if my stuff turns up on Worldtracer.

My luggage vs security theatre

My luggage vs security theatre
Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac

Here's a couple of pics of what my luggage looks like... loud red
Samsonite with a Chococat tag.

Seeing as Qantas have no idea about anything, electronically speaking,
I'm going to try my luck today at the Tullamarine T2 Qantas baggage
services.

Day 3 without my luggage, bets on malice or incompetence?

This http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=9114&page=1 is a pretty good mirror of my experience, complete with staring at the useless WorldTracer page.

Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive, or, Friends Don't Let Friends Fly Delta

Luggage, once checked onto Delta Airlines, ceases to exist. Really.
They can't track it. They have no idea where it is. Bob from Bangalore
can't help you.
I've been calling Qantas too and they've been only slightly less
useless, but as the fault didn't originate with them that's not all
that surprising. As the final carrier, it's their responsibility to
check

http://www.worldtracer.aero/filedsp/qf.htm and offer useless
platitudes.

Luggage has now been missing for 48 hours, somewhere within JFK,
because Qantas have no record, so there has been no handoff.

If anyone has any better ideas re: Delta, let me know, but I'm going
to try to hunt down a number for the JFK terminal Baggage Claim .

New York, New York

I am EXHAUSTED. Safe to say I've probably never walked so far in my
life before.

Spent the weekend in the big Apple, of which Ive only seen a tiny bit
and probably not the good parts . Yesterday I explored some of uptown
and today was downtown, Wallstreet, Battery Park, Soho, Noho, possibly
Tribeca. I dont know, I got lost a lot. But if I hadn't got lost on
53rd trying to find MoMA, for example, I wouldn't have found the
Berlin Wall piece, off the sidewalk in a little courtyard (scene where
world got better). And I found Ground Zero more or less by accident,
wondering briefly why there were all those cranes behind Century 21
(where world careened off into absolutely fucked up with no reset
button) .
Though tawdry Century 21 right next door kind of makes me smile. It
seems kind of wrong, but as I get older I know there's no Right. We
are what we are. We tolerate. We do our best.
Second ever snow experience while I was there. It has stopped snowing
much by afternoon, but the sidewalks were slick with ice. I learned
quickly to not try to walk on a slope (can't keep your balance). You
have to brace your leg muscles at every step for stability. Came
close but did not fall on butt in a grubby snowdrift, or worse, slip
into traffic. I'm sure nobody does that, but if you know me, you know
I'd find a way.
Thanks to the many free wifi providers I used along the way to help me
find stuff not on the Lonely Planet map. This would be the Pod Hotel,
CBS, Staples, the free NY city wifi on Wall Street, and occasionly
Linksys. Another tactic that worked was getting directions off a
display iPhone at AT&T. Heh heh heh.
Five million photos of NY will be going up on my blog shortly.
As an aside, the food's a bit overrated, and the closer to the
tourist strip you go, the crappier and more expensive it gets. Rhode
Island is better.
Note - everyone I sat near in every Starbucks seemed to be a British
tourist. Also tourists asked me for directions a lot.
Other than the ice and losing a glove, no bad experiences. Subway
stinky but not dangerous during day and early evening.
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