Skinit Sadness Strikes a Second Time

Last month, I ordered a super cool shell from skin it, remember?

Well, I decided that since skinit has never made with the badness before, I could totally try again. I mean, it can’t be terrible twice, right? Right! So I went on the shell maker thing again and made this:

Now it’s not the prettiest, but it’s very…me! And personally, I like me. So I had it printed and was excited because I figured that they really couldn’t mess this one up! It came today and I was excited and a bit nervous to open it, here it is:

It’s still cute, but why is it purple? ugh. Oh well. I guess skinit is just bad at pink? I don’t think I’m going to try this again though.

I have button hate!

Now, I don’t normally bag on vista, but after having it for a while, I’ve noticed one thing I really really hate, and it is this button. I don’t really remember what the middle button did in XP, but I know it wasn’t this. Sometimes I am browsing through my photos, maybe deleting some, or looking for something specific. This probably means I’m using the forward button and maybe sometimes even the back button. Sometimes however, I accidently hit this dumb middle button. You know what this does? First, it freezes my whole computer for roughly 3 seconds. Then, my screen goes black. Then, It scrolls through every picture in that folder slowly. And is difficult to exit. Stupid slideshow button. Go away. No one likes you.

The Tale of the Terrible T-mobile Travesty

Let me preface this by saying that I know this isn’t really T-mobile’s fault, I just used the title for the alliteration.

Recently I got a sidekick shell from T-mobile through skinit. Since I have a Sidekick 2008, I can have replacement shells not just skins or snap on rubber things. Anyway, the shells are custom and printable. Now, I’ve gotten things from skinit before and been perfectly content. This time however, it was a complete disaster.

My friend John made me this really awesome picture as a desktop awhile ago. I love this picture, and I thought to myself, “how cool would it be to have a shell for my phone with this picture on it!” “Really Cool,” I answered. So I set about making a shell using skinit’s on site custom shell maker.

This is the picture in question, of course it was larger, much higher quality, and without silly text over it.

It’s a lovely picture, and I really do enjoy it oh so much. So I was excited to get the shell made. I went through everything and got it all made and this is the preview of what the shell would look like as shown to me as a confirmation upon checking out:

“I love it,” I say as I admire my handiwork. I give myself a big pat on the back and congratulate myself on my genius idea and place the order. I go about my merry way for about 3 weeks before I start to get really antsy and wonder where my wonderful sidekick shell is. Soon after that it shows up at my door. I’m excited, so ridiculously excited.

Until I open the package. What could possibly be wrong? This:

It is purple. Did anyone else notice? It’s purple? How did the picture that I made it out of, which turned into my lovely preview picture, get printed as that? Let me assure you, the coloring in that picture is correct. How does this happen? I’m so seriously upset over this. Sadly the paper I got with it amd the T-mobile/skinit sidekick shells site says that they don’t do refunds or exchanges for their custom shells, so I doubt that contacting them will do any good, but I will try. It just seems like a really terrible mistake to be made.

Crazy things happen to me on xbox live.

m-$oft doing it dirty one more time.

It looks like Microsoft has screwed another dedicated gamer over. This one though is heartbreaking.

“A passionate gamer by the name of Nathaniel purchased an Xbox 360 at launch. After working reliably for over two years, his faithful console companion finally kicked the bucket. It was then that he faced a major quandary. Should he send it in for repairs or attempt to fix it himself? The obvious answer would be send it in for repairs but Nathaniel’s 360 was not like yours and mine. Oh no, it was special. “Was” being the key word.” Read More…

Update 3/7/08: Bungie Unscrews previously screwed gamer:

“Despite the fact that Bungie had absolutely nothing to do with what happened, they wanted to help make things right with Nathaniel. A large box packed full of Halo swag arrived on Nathaniel’s doorstep yesterday afternoon. It took Bungie six days total to gather numerous goodies, pack them up, ship it off, and have it arrive at his house. The quickness in which they responded is absolutely astounding. Bungie goes above and beyond with their fans each and every day, but this time they truly outdid themselves.” Read More…

Update 3/21/08: Microsoft makes things right:

Microsoft contacted Nathaniel the day the article was originally published to offer a brief apology and to let him know they were working on rectifying the situation. Unfortunately they have been oddly silent since then. They have not given him any updates on the investigation, nor have they said if they figured out exactly what happened to his case. They did send him a gigantic cardboard box though. Read More…

Links all go to Hawty McBloggy, possibly the coolest named gaming blog ever.