Soldering is not my forte …

… and yet, I managed to get my USB stick to half-working condition again. Not great, but good enough to get my data off of it. Oh yeah, this one also broke during my year long 2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware ‘event’, even before my headset died. Actually, it wasn’t really a hardware failure that caused it to break but my own, dumb self. While at Games Convention 2008, I had stuck it into the front-USB port of one of the recording PCs and while I was messing with said PC, trying to get its capture card to work, which was a pointless adventure as I later uncovered its built-in cinch connector wasn’t for video at all and I was missing a dongle for it to channel the cinch video input to it’s S-Video connector, …. but I disgress. So I had stuck my USB Stick into this PC and as I kept getting under the table, to mess with the video inputs, and back up, I ended up kneeling down on the stick and breaking its connector off. Not a happy moment, but it’s all better now! ;)

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I can’t hear you!

Continuing 2008 – Year of the Dead Hardware, my trusty old SENNHEISER PC-150 headset kicked the bucket today. Cause of death: Broken Cable. I guess that’s the ultimate fate for pretty much any headset or headphones, but I’m glad it took this one a good few years to actually meet it. (As opposed to the three Plantronics headsets I had before, one of which was DoA and it’s replacement didn’t even last more than a few weeks.)

Well, guess it’s time for a new one… checking out the SENNHEISER product line-up right now.

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