That time of year
- posted by Michael Walsh on August 9th, 2007
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Hey guys,
Just a little post to warn you that I might be a little slow in answering mail, comments, requests and invitations (yeah right).
It happens to all of us every now and then and tomorrow morning it’s happening to me. I’m going to the beach where I’ll be able to test my new Vodafone UMTS connection out (when no-one’s looking of course). That’s right, The Acer Guy’s going on holiday. No not Jing, the other Acer Guy, the sad one who thought it’d be a good idea to build a bridge between the company he works for and the people it sells its wares to…
But the show will of course go on – that’s why I put that Captcha thing at the bottom of each comments section so you can moan, drone, rave or slave even if I’m not biologically attached to my notebook for a day or two or more. I’ll still be checking in each day, but not posting reviews till 3am (they’re amazing screenshots though, aren’t they 
). OK I’ll make 1 exception: Jing and his Oblivion update which I’ll add to the original review rather than making a new one.
In late September Acer will hold its annual global press conference where it will announce to the world what’s what for 2008. That should give us something to talk about unless of course we decide to go off on a tangent of our own Whaddya say Jing??
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Jing wrote, on August 10th, 2007:
I’m all for the tangents! But I’d probably sit back and see what others have to contribute cause I think I’ve caused this blog to become overly focused on one laptop, the 5920. Not that its a bad thing! It is Acer’s most popular laptop for a long time.
Anyways, I’ll be reading what you get up to at Acer’s press conference.
Michael Walsh wrote, on August 11th, 2007:
Over-focused? Nah
More like major wake-up call to a lot of country managers who’ve never seen real-time feedback on a new product like this before. This blog’s got people from all continents talking about it and as long as they’re talking, I’m a happy bunny 
I’m afraid I’m going to have to delude you regarding the press conference. I won’t be there this year. It’s in Madrid (which is cool) but it’s about two weeks before my second child is due and nothing on this planet is taking me away from that.
Still I’ll be writing a great deal of the support material and if anything interesting comes out of it I’ll be posting it here too.
It’s a shame though as I was going to do live updates or try and set up a live video stream like Justin.tv but I guess that’ll have to wait till next year. Blame it on Alex
Right. Black out for two days.
Jimmy wrote, on August 28th, 2007:
Hi Michael,
Are you back after the week end….Its a long time since heard from you….
Michael Walsh wrote, on August 30th, 2007:
Jimmy,
Thanks for noticing. How are you doing?
I just got back 30 minutes ago after managing to kill my TravelMate 6465 after just two days at the beach. I’ve been outside the loop for twenty days and it’s been driving me crazy.
Give me a few hours to get myself together (and bag another notebook) and I’ll get things going again.