06.21.07
digg.com and consumerist.com linked to my video today
Wow. That was a huge amount of traffic both to the youtube video and my blog in a short time. Thankfully I had the cache in place and the site held up very well. Anyone that hasn’t seen it, here are the links:
Man Teaches Apple To Not Repair His Macbook By Smashing It With Sledgehammer on digg.com
Man Teaches Apple To Not Repair His Macbook By Smashing It With Sledgehammer on consumerist.com
I’m actually impressed my server handled this as well as it did, though consumerist took the brunt of the traffic I got quite a bit of spillover here.
Now to address the comments. Apple fans seem to like to make personal attacks whenever anyone tries to say anything bad about Apple. That’s fine, though I expected a bit more maturity from that group, the internet is the internet and semi-anonymity encourages people to be douchebags. I will steer clear from Apple fans in the future though, I kept feeling I needed to defend myself from completely made up claims, but I got over that. Now I’m just enjoying all the sniping and back-and-forth action in the comments on both sites. Hell I even dugg up some of the funnier comments just for spite.
To clear up something that is being asked over and over again, I took the HDD, the ram, and the battery out of my macbook and sold them before the video was made. It seemed overly wasteful to destroy perfectly good parts. I screwed up the screen trying to remove it, or else I would have probably been able to sell it as well. I still have the screen, the connector to the mainboard is broken though.
I felt like I had to justify myself at first, mainly because everyone was calling me a liar, but I got over that pretty quick. I have nothing to prove to anyone, and the video stands on it’s own merit. It was fun to do and the controversy is amusing me to no end…
I haven’t felt the virtualization subject stirring me up lately, so I’m going to be adding several more categories to my blog after this, just so I have things to post about. I feel I should spend more time posting fresh content than I have been, and will be changing things around tomorrow. Other than that, I’m floored at the attention my video has gotten, but I figured it would piss some people off. The video is serving it’s purpose, presenting my experience in a novel way, and that seems to be a lightning rod for controversy. Thanks for the attention all, come back again and maybe you’ll like my posts.