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Found this over at Dave Winer's today. It's adorably hilarious.

# posted by Ingrid Jones @ 10/01/2003

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AMBULANCE WORKER "PHOTOGRAPHED BODY"

Using a mobile phone

This is awful. It is claimed that a mobile phone was used by an

ambulance worker in north Lincolnshire, UK, last month to take a

photograph of a dead person from a "road traffic incident".

The medic was sacked over 'body photo' but the police are not

investigating further because there appears to have been no criminal

act.

Imagine the distress of the family, relations and friends. It's

dreadful.

If this photograph was taken with a mobile phone, it could have been

sent within seconds to the Internet.

New laws will have to be made soon to try and stop anything like this

from happening.

# posted by Ingrid Jones @ 10/01/2003

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THANK YOU TO DELL

In Bangalore, India

Three months ago I bought, direct from Dell in Ireland, a Latitude

C400 notebook with 3 year on-site warranty.

Last week, I used keyboard cleaner and a cotton wool ball to clean

what must have been hand cream marks (my hands are always clean) on

the casing. It left two blobby spots. The casing wasn't brushed metal

as I'd thought, it was a smart looking plastic and the special

solution had rubbed through the paint.

Mortified, I called Dell in Ireland for advice and whimpered that it

was like driving a brand new car and having to look at two spots on

the paint of the bonnet. The technician (in Bangalore, India) had

never heard of such a thing but completely understood my upset and

arranged for a courier to be here the next day, with packaging, to

pack up the laptop and deliver it back to the factory in Ireland. It

would be fixed and returned to me in five working days.

Sensing my disappointment, he explained that on-site engineers don't

carry spare keyboard casings. We agreed on arrangements for the

courier pick-up.

The call left me feeling sad and bereft. A whole week without my new

friend and blog.

Five minutes later the 'phone rang. It was Samir, the technician from

Dell in Bangalore again, calling to say that he had arranged for an