Whinge - HP Health Check Drives Me Crazy

I am writing this on an HP laptop. One of the maintenance applications that came with it is HP Health Check. This runs every so often and checks to see if there are any software or driver updates for installed components/basic utility programs on the computer. This is a good thing, but unlike Microsoft Update, which automatically installs routine updates in the background and lets you know when it has finished the HP updates require you to install each and every one manually, making you read and accept a EULA for each and every one and sometimes that is half a dozen or more updates.  I mean really, why is it necessary to have a EULA for a routine update to software you already have installed? Who do they think actually reads the damn things? This manual installation process becomes very laborious and distracts me from writing brilliant and insightful blog posts (now you know why they're so lame. It's HP's fault) as the updates keep clamoring for attention.

/whinge 

iPhone 4 Defective - Chuckie Schumer Comes to the Rescue

So Steve Jobs' legendary perfectionism ( or OCD as the case may be) has finally gotten the better of him and form now has a decisive upper hand over function. "So what if the thing is defective. It's too pretty to make it work right." Well, not to worry Chuckie Schumer is on the case. Of course, poor Chuckie can't help himself either. After all, he heard that the iPhone 4 has not just one but two, count'em, two cameras (!). As anyone who has followed his exploits knows, the most dangerous place in the world to be is between Chuckie Schumer and the nearest camera. He just can't bear the thought that someone transmitting his beaming visage might just lose the call. That just won't do.

(via Instapundit)