Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Two weeks ago I took my camera on a trip. When I tried to use it I got the “blinking green light of death”. Why is it that every form of electronics has a way of saying “I’m dead” and this usually involved a blinking green light?
Anyway, it turns out that a few first generation Nikon D70 cameras may malfunction. My Camera was of course out of warranty. However, the good folks at Nikon repaired the problem for free.
Now that’s a company that cares about it’s customers. Because as bad as this problem was (I shudder to think of what would have happened had I been in a foreign country with nothing to do but take lots of pictures) at least I’ll never think twice about buying another camera from Nikon.
Anyway, last week I sent my camera to Nikon, and 5 days later it’s back in my possession all fixed and cleaned. Thanks Nikon!