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March 05, 2006
The joys of technology
I bought my third Chinese flash disk yesterday. I use a flash disk to print my lessons and teaching materials – I type them on my laptop and then take the flash disk to a printing shop. The printing shops don’t have internet access so a flash disk is my only option.
The first one I bought about six months ago for a little over 100 yuan (about $12). After a couple months, it broke – it wouldn’t open. I took it back to the shop but the warranty had already expired. So I bought a second one, from a different store, careful to buy a better brand that would carry a longer warranty. A week ago, when I tried to print my lesson plans, my new flash disk wouldn’t open. I was annoyed but not worried, figuring I would just take it back to have it fixed. Yesterday I went back to where I thought the shop I’d bought it from was. It wasn’t there anymore. It may have moved; it may have just closed; it will take some research to find out and in the meantime I need a way to print my lesson plans, so I bought my third flash disk. Three flash disks, three different stores, three different brands. I’m hoping the third time will be a charm.
My Chinese students and friends say they’ve “never heard of a flash disk breaking before.” Go figure.
| By huzzlecoo | 08:28 PM
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